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Don't Call Us Dead Quiz

Danez Smith

This Study Guide consists of approximately 53 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Don't Call Us Dead.

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What common symbolic associations with “summer” make it the right setting for this poem? (from Pages 1 - 22)

Heat and eruptions of violence.

Innocence and freedom.

Pressure and release.

Light and safety.

2.

The title of “seroconversion” is a medical term for the development of antibodies in the blood. How does this title relate to the poem? (from Pages 37 - 52)

The five sections of the poem depict metaphorical immunization.

The poem explores the difficult relationship between the medical establishment and HIV patients.

It directs the reader to take the five sections of the poem as metaphors for illness and infection.

The poem mimics inoculation by exposing the reader to increasingly violent stories of desire and illness.

3.

What does the red water in “1 in 2” symbolize? (from Pages 53 - 72)

The hazards of contemporary life for black boys.

The danger of queer love due to the threat of HIV/AIDS.

The way desire and death are intertwined.

The threat of intimate violence.

4.

What is the central argument behind the poet’s use of slurs in “at the down-low house party”? (from Pages 23 - 36)

In an effort to be more masculine and heterosexual, the men in the poem use slurs to reject their own desires.

The queer community is not always accepting of its own members who present their queerness differently.

Words that are slurs in one context may be compliments in another.

Those who cannot express honest and positive desire will use the only language they know, even if it is negative.

5.

Why does the speaker of “1 in 2” see HIV/AIDS as both plague and genocide? (from Pages 53 - 72)

Plagues are biological, but the refusal to cure them is political.

Black bodies have experienced both throughout history.

Queer bodies are devalued by both medicine and the state.

The spreading of HIV/AIDS was both intentional and non-intentional.

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