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

2. Which of the following does the narrator refer to as a drummer?
(a) Winchester.
(b) Hotchkiss.
(c) Gatling.
(d) Springfield.

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) “We smoke more grass than we ever promise to plant.”
(c) “The Arizona highway sailed across the desert.”
(d) “Despair has a loose daughter.”

4. Which seeds accompany the addressee of “Mercy Songs to Melancholy”?
(a) Black poppy.
(b) Black poplar.
(c) White poplar.
(d) Sunflower.

5. In which of the following years does the narrator report the FBI pursued Jimmy Eagle?
(a) 1974.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1976.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following do Guy No-Horse’s observers yell?

2. To which of the following does the narrator compare her parents?

3. Across which of the following rivers does the narrator row?

4. Which of the following instruments does the narrator remark remain in museums?

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

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