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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following avians is on the costume with which the narrator is provided for Halloween?

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

4. With which of the following does the narrator associate Huitzliopochtli?

5. To which of the following semi-precious stones does the narrator compare her front yard?

Short Essay Questions

1. What living situation does the narrator describe for her brother when he was the Aztec of the title?

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

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

4. What hypothetical does the narrator pose about the Biblical *Eve* in “If Eve Side-Stealer & Mary Busted-Chest Ruled the World” (25)?

5. What does the narrator warn is the likely effect of an angel visiting the reservation?

6. For what does the narrator note having prayed to the tortilla god?

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

8. With what are the Hopi men working before signing on with the Department of Transportation in “The Facts of Art”?

9. To what does the narrator compare yesterday to in “Other Small Thundering”?

10. For what basketball skills is Reservation Mary’s suitor noted?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast any two of the poems in the collection in terms of overall effect. Attend not only to their formal features, but also to their content and its implications.

Essay Topic 2

Consider the names of several characters (e.g., Guy No-Horse, Mary Busted-Chest, Eve Side-Stealer) in the collection as kennings. Given such a function, what name might be expected of the narrator and her brother? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

The narrator makes several references to being beastlike. What purpose might that reference serve? How does that purpose manifest in the collection?

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