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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 "The Mustangs," what is the mother talking about when she mentions "slingshots" (35)?
(a) Her children's toys.
(b) Her son's arms and hands.
(c) The family's dogs.
(d) The birds that nest in their rafters.

2. What distinguishes "Run'n'Gun" from the poems that come before it in the collection?
(a) It is concrete poetry.
(b) It employs a regular meter.
(c) It is a prose poem.
(d) It is rhymed.

3. In "I, Minotaur," what does the speaker call "lilac-lit pools of ablution" (57)?
(a) The desert flowers.
(b) Her self-inflicted wounds.
(c) The beloved's thighs.
(d) The light that she and her lover find together.

4. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what is the speaker's objection to her lover saying, "You make me feel like lightening" (15)?
(a) She associates lightening with violence.
(b) She associates lightening with rain.
(c) She associates lightening with whiteness.
(d) She associates lightening with Manhattan.

5. In "It Was the Animals," what does the speaker want to do that her brother stops her from doing?
(a) Throw out the piece of wood.
(b) Read the inscription on the wood.
(c) Follow the animals.
(d) Call her brother's doctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Isn't the Air Also a Body, Moving?" the use of the word "coppered" is an example of which literary technique (73)?

2. In "Wolf OR-7," what is the "trembling blue line" (32)?

3. In "It Was the Animals," what does the speaker's brother tell her she can read about on the wood he has found?

4. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," to what does the speaker compare the United States?

5. In "I, Minotaur," what device is used in phrases like "love and what love becomes" and "appetite of your own appetite" (55)?

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