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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 “Black Magic Brother”?
2. How many children does the narrator note her father has?
3. To which of the following luchadores does the narrator compare her father?
4. Which of the following is the first line of “I Watch Her Eat the Apple”?
5. Which of the following kinds of orange 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. What reason does the narrator give for considering a skull in “Dome Riddle”?
2. What does the narrator note possibly wanting to see fall near the end of “Black Magic Brother”?
3. 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?
4. What hellish vision does the narrator’s mother see in “My Brother at 3 A.M.”?
5. How does the narrator report having interacted with Cortés in “Self-Portrait as a Chimera”?
6. What does the narrator report her parents seek to become in “As a Consequence of My Brother Stealing All the Lightbulbs”?
7. How does the narrator summarize the appearance of her parents’ home in “How to Go to Dinner with a Brother on Drugs”?
8. What does the narrator explain at the end of “Soirée Fantastique”?
9. 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?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What overall attitude towards family does the collection present? What in the text shows that presentation? 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
Fundamentally, whose story is told in When My Brother Was an Aztec? That is, who is the protagonist? How does the collection show it?
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