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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 "exhibits from The American Water Museum," what does the speaker say is the "first violence against any body of water" (64)?
(a) Forgetting its original name.
(b) Damming it.
(c) Becoming alienated from it.
(d) Polluting it.

2. In "Like Church," the beloved's shoulders are compared to "hematite clocks" (29). What is hematite?
(a) A transparent salt.
(b) A polished fossil.
(c) A black mineral.
(d) A porous rock.

3. In "Blood-Light," what is described in the page 5 image "yellow metallic scissors"?
(a) Scorpions.
(b) Crayfish.
(c) Knitting needles.
(d) Chopsticks.

4. In the opening of "Skin-Light," to what creature does the speaker compare herself?
(a) A bull.
(b) A scorpion.
(c) A jaguar.
(d) A coyote.

5. What figure from Mexican folklore is referred to in "exhibits from The American Water Museum"?
(a) El Duende.
(b) El Coco.
(c) Los Chaneques.
(d) La Llorona.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," what twentieth century American movie is alluded to?

2. In "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," what is a "traje de luces"?

3. In "Like Church," what does the speaker compare her relationship with the church to?

4. In "Like Church," what does the speaker mean by "It is real work not to perform/ a fable" (30)?

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

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