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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. To which of the following libraries does the narrator compare a skull in “Dome Riddle”?
2. In “Self-Portrait as a Chimera,” the narrator’s mother has a temple at which of the following?
3. Which of the following does the narrator of “I Lean Out the Window and She Nods Off in Bed, the Needle Gently Rocking on the Bedside Table” report painting on her lover’s *palms*?
4. Which of the following does the narrator of “Toward the Amaranth Gates of War or Love” claim is the purpose of war?
5. Which of the following does the narrator’s brother wants to kill him in “My Brother at 3 A.M.”?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the concluding couplet of “Lorca’s Red Dresses”?
2. What hellish vision does the narrator’s mother see in “My Brother at 3 A.M.”?
3. In what ways does the narrator note that she and her siblings are bestial in “Zoology”?
4. For what reason does the narrator note having hosted her brother?
5. How is the room onto which “the door of your hip” opens in “Monday Aubade” described (83)?
6. How does the narrator of “I Lean Out the Window and She Nods Off in Bed, the Needle Gently Rocking on the Bedside Table” report painting her lover’s arms?
7. What music does the narrator claim to hear when her beloved eats an apple?
8. What explanations are offered for the narrator’s brother’s arrests in “Downhill Triolets”?
9. How does the narrator of “When the Beloved Asks, ‘What Would You Do if You Woke Up and I Was a Shark?’” note answering the question of the title?
10. What reason does the narrator give for considering a skull in “Dome Riddle”?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is implied by the repeated assignations between Mojave Barbie and Ken? What gives rise to the implication? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 2
An epigraph is generally expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it precedes. Does the epigraph of When My Brother Was an Aztec do so for its collection? How or how not?
Essay Topic 3
A number of the poems in the collection are divided into smaller sections. For one such poem, what function does the division into sections serve, and how is that function manifested?
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