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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following documents is noted to accompany Mojave Barbie?
(a) A frybread recipe.
(b) A tortilla recipe.
(c) A colonche recipe.
(d) A passport.

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

3. Which of the following is the color of Jimmy Eagle’s truck?
(a) Blue.
(b) White.
(c) Gray.
(d) Red.

4. Which of the following is the first line of “Reservation Grass”?
(a) “Corned beef comes on the first of every month.”
(b) “I found your blue suitcases.”
(c) “Betsy Ross needled hot stars to Mr. Washington’s bedspread.”
(d) “We smoke more grass than we ever promise to plant.”

5. Which of the following is the last line of “Prayers or Oubliettes”?
(a) “The mottled wings are the words to pain.”
(b) “With empty wine jugs at our heels.”
(c) “Oh, and those beautiful, beautiful baskets.”
(d) “To eat from your dark pie.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does the narrator note her brother feeds “The slave girls” (1)?

2. Which of the following describes the suit in “Mercy Songs to Melancholy”?

3. To which of the following does the narrator compare her brother’s followers?

4. Which of the following is the first line of “Cloud Watching”?

5. From which of the following is the inscription at the beginning of “The Facts of Art” taken?

Short Essay Questions

1. What complaint does the narrator voice about raisins after eating them?

2. How does The Injun That Could accommodate dancers?

3. What does the narrator note grows in front yards in “Reservation Grass”?

4. About what does the two-man band at The Injun That Could sing about?

5. What is noted as being needed to justify the presence of insulin among Mojave Barbie’s effects?

6. What does the narrator cite as possible sources of madness in “Other Small Thundering”?

7. How is the beer that accompanies Mojave Barbie discussed?

8. How are the Hopi men pressured to return to work in “The Facts of Art”?

9. Based on the poem “Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination of Anglikan Seraphym Subjugation of a Wild Indian Rezervation,” what is an abecedarian poem?

10. What does the narrator note being given by history?

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