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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 is the first line of “Mercy Songs to Melancholy”?
(a) “We smoke more grass than we ever promise to plant.”
(b) “Betsy Ross needled hot stars to Mr. Washington’s bedspread.”
(c) “I found your blue suitcases.”
(d) “Who mines her throat?”

2. To which of the following does the narrator compare her brother’s followers?
(a) Animal-tamers.
(b) Acrobats.
(c) Clowns.
(d) Musicians.

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

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

5. Which of the following describes the suit in “Mercy Songs to Melancholy”?
(a) Navy two-piece.
(b) Charcoal two-piece.
(c) Charcoal three-piece.
(d) Navy three-piece.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Guy No-Horse himself yell?

2. Which of the following documents is noted to accompany Mojave Barbie?

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

4. In a grove of which of the following does the narrator’s brother preside?

5. To which meal are Ken and Skipper confined?

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