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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. How long does the narrator claim her mother has wept?
2. In “Zoology,” from which of the following does the narrator’s father bring home a putative zebra?
3. In “Zoology,” which of the following does the narrator note being poised to eat?
4. Which of the following is the first line of “Lorca’s Red Dresses”?
5. Which of the following types of apple does the narrator’s beloved hold in “I Watch Her Eat the Apple”?
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. 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?
4. What reasons does the narrator give for taking her brother to dinner?
5. 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?
6. What questions does the narrator ask in “Toward the Amaranth Gates of War or Love” (75)?
7. How does the narrator of “I Lean Out the Window and She Nods Off in Bed, the Needle Gently Rocking on the Bedside Table” note having been created?
8. Into what sections is “Formication” divided?
9. In “Self-Portrait as a Chimera,” the narrator presents herself as facing execution. How does she relate herself to her lover as she does?
10. What complaint does the narrator note her brother is likely to have in “How to Go to Dinner with a Brother on Drugs”?
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
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
What significance inheres in the nonstandard spellings in the title “Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination of Anglikan Seraphym Subjugation of a Wild Indian Rezervation,” and how do you know?
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