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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: "I, Minotaur" through "Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Asterion's Lament," what does the speaker say is another name for "water" (27)?
(a) "Holy."
(b) "Thread."
(c) "Map."
(d) "Jet."

2. In "Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera," to what does the speaker compare the camera's aperture?
(a) A lake.
(b) A wound.
(c) An eye.
(d) A mouth.

3. In the page 27 lines from "Asterion's Lament," "Let me be your tender captain, ferry/ the ultramarine thread you unraveled"" what literary technique is being employed?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Epistrophe.
(c) Apologia.
(d) Double entente.

4. In "I, Minotaur," the speaker uses the word "Minotauromachy." Where does this word come from?
(a) A Keats poem about a Grecian artifact.
(b) A work by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.
(c) A Shakespearean play.
(d) The contemporary YA series The Hunger Games.

5. In "Wolf OR-7," what technique is being employed in the page 33 line, "My mind climbed the rise, fall, rise of your bared back"?
(a) Syllogism.
(b) Hypotaxis.
(c) Asyndeton.
(d) Pun.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Skin-Light," what is the likely antecedent of "this" in "This is the war I was born for" (22)?

2. In "It Was the Animals," what technique is used in the description of the piece of the "ark" next to the speaker's coffee cup?

3. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what is the speaker's objection to her lover saying, "You make me feel like lightening" (15)?

4. In "How the Milky Way Was Made," how many dams does the speaker say "shatter" the Colorado (61)?

5. In "The Mustangs," what is the mother talking about when she mentions "slingshots" (35)?

(see the answer key)

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