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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 is the first line of “How to Go to Dinner with a Brother on Drugs”?
2. Which of the following is the first line of “Downhill Triolets”?
3. Which of the following weapons does the narrator describe as “blue tapers” in “Lorca’s Red Dresses” (87)?
4. Which of the following is the first line of “Black Magic Brother”?
5. To which of the following *bones* does the narrator compare a skull in “Dome Riddle”?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. How is the room onto which “the door of your hip” opens in “Monday Aubade” described (83)?
3. What reason does the narrator give for considering a skull in “Dome Riddle”?
4. What annoyance does the narrator note finding in Jesus in “Soirée Fantastique”?
5. What questions does the narrator ask in “Toward the Amaranth Gates of War or Love” (75)?
6. In what circumstances does the narrator of “When the Beloved Asks, ‘What Would You Do if You Woke Up and I Was a Shark?’” note having considered the question of the title?
7. In “Self-Portrait as a Chimera,” the narrator presents herself as facing execution. How does she relate herself to her lover as she does?
8. What does the narrator explain at the end of “Soirée Fantastique”?
9. What does the narrator note possibly wanting to see fall near the end of “Black Magic Brother”?
10. Into what sections is “Formication” divided?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the most important theme of Diaz’s collection? What in the book indicates as much? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 2
Near the beginning of “Other Small Thundering,” the narrator makes mention of “Charon’s narrow skiffs” (31). What purpose does the Classical reference serve? How is that purpose enacted?
Essay Topic 3
What overall attitude towards family does the collection present? What in the text shows that presentation? How does it do so?
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