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

2. To which meal are Ken and Skipper confined?

3. Which of the following does the narrator associate with her menstruation?

4. Which of the following items of jewelry is noted to accompany Mojave Barbie?

5. What color hair do the women who dance with Guy No-Horse have?

Short Essay Questions

1. What crown does the narrator’s brother wear?

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

3. In “Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination of Anglikan Seraphym Subjugation of a Wild Indian Reservation,” how is Gabe described?

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

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

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

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

8. What results from Mojave Barbie’s assignations with Ken?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What attitude toward shame does the collection note? What in the text indicates that attitude? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Many of the poems in the collection work well both with and without the inclusion of their title lines in the text. For any one of the poems in the collection, how does the reading change if the title is included as part of the main text of the poem?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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