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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 the narrator associate with the headdress of a greedy god?
2. Which of the following types of apple does the narrator’s beloved hold in “I Watch Her Eat the Apple”?
3. Which of the following is the first line of “When the Beloved Asks, ‘What Would You Do if You Work Up and I Was a Shark?’”?
4. To which of the following luchadores does the narrator compare her father?
5. Which of the following kinds of shell does the narrator consider in “When the Beloved Asks, ‘What Would You Do if You Work Up and I Was a Shark?’”?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What does the narrator report her parents seek to become in “As a Consequence of My Brother Stealing All the Lightbulbs”?
3. What does the narrator note possibly wanting to see fall near the end of “Black Magic Brother”?
4. How is the room onto which “the door of your hip” opens in “Monday Aubade” described (83)?
5. For what reason does the narrator note having hosted her brother?
6. What does the narrator posit might be the worst part of the funeral for her brother?
7. In what ways does the narrator note that she and her siblings are bestial in “Zoology”?
8. How does the narrator summarize the appearance of her parents’ home in “How to Go to Dinner with a Brother on Drugs”?
9. What questions does the narrator ask in “Toward the Amaranth Gates of War or Love” (75)?
10. What hellish vision does the narrator’s mother see in “My Brother at 3 A.M.”?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
What significance accrues to Mojave Barbie interacting with Skipper in “The Last Mojave Indian Barbie?” How does that significance emerge?
Essay Topic 3
Notably, the narrator’s mother is accorded more dialogue than the narrator’s father. What meaning can be taken from the relative presentation, and how does that meaning emerge?
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