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Section 1: "Postcolonial Love Poem" through "From the Desire Field"

1. What does the opening of "Postcolonial Love Poem" claim that moonstones can do?
(a) Stop the bleeding of a snakebite.
(b) Predict the weather.
(c) Make someone fall in love with you.
(d) Help you find your way home.

2. In the page 1 lines, "when the war ended. The war ended/ depending on which war you mean," what technique is used to introduce ambiguity?
(a) Enjambment.
(b) Synechdoche.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Personification.

3. What is implied in "Postcolonial Love Poem's" allusion to the wars "which started me, which I lost and won"?
(a) Romantic relationships represent both a beginning and an end.
(b) Diaz is a pacifist who objects to war of any kind.
(c) Both the speaker's existence and struggles result from the wars of colonial conquest.
(d) The speaker's parents had a difficult relationship, and she inherited their argumentative tendencies.

4. In "Postcolonial Love Poem," the speaker mentions a "cabochon." What is a cabochon?
(a) A smoothed and polished stone.
(b) A silver buckle common in the Southwestern United States.
(c) A variety of jasper.
(d) A small silver disk used to hold a bolo tie together.

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