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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section I, “9. Cloud Watching” to “18. The Clouds Are Buffalo Limping toward Jesus”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following types of bread does Reservation Mary sell?
(a) Baguettes.
(b) Frybread.
(c) Pumpernickel.
(d) Pan dulce.

2. To which of the following does the narrator compare hunger in “Cloud Watching”?
(a) A bird.
(b) A dog.
(c) A mouse.
(d) A cat.

3. Which of the following is the first line of “Other Small Thundering”?
(a) “We are born with spinning coins in place of eyes.”
(b) “The Arizona highway sailed across the desert.”
(c) “We smoke more grass than we ever promise to plant.”
(d) “Despair has a loose daughter.”

4. Which of the following ruminants does the narrator note are between her legs?
(a) Bison.
(b) Deer.
(c) Giraffes.
(d) Bulls.

5. In a grove of which of the following does the narrator’s brother preside?
(a) Mountain cedar.
(b) Red oak.
(c) Salt cedar.
(d) Juniper.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of which of the following fruits does the narrator note her brother’s clothes smell?

2. How many stanzas does “Jimmy Eagle’s Hot Cowboy Boots Blues” have?

3. In which of the following kinds of trailer do the workers’ wives live in “The Facts of Art”?

4. Of which of the following does the narrator note her brother’s clothes smell?

5. In which of the following years does the narrator report the FBI pursued Jimmy Eagle?

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