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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 "These Hands, If Not Gods," what comparison is made by the lines "eaten the bread/ of your thighs, broke you to wine" (7)?
(a) The hard work of a relationship is compared to agricultural work.
(b) Sex with the beloved is compared to the Christian rite of communion.
(c) Coming home to the beloved is compared to the Ancient Greek tradition of hospitality.
(d) Jealousy and possessiveness in a relationship is compared to cannibalism.

2. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what creature does the speaker claim is walking down West 29th Street?
(a) A rabbit.
(b) A bull.
(c) A coyote.
(d) A lion.

3. What is distinctive about the structure of "Blood-Light"?
(a) If compressed, the lines would form a free-verse version of a sonnet.
(b) It uses ballad meter.
(c) It is grouped into two-line stanzas.
(d) It is the only rhymed poem in the collection.

4. In "Run'n'Gun," what is the rhetorical purpose of the description of the Indian children's shoes and socks?
(a) It portrays them as underdogs.
(b) It portrays their pride in their heritage.
(c) It develops the poem's lighthearted tone.
(d) It foreshadows the poem's ending.

5. In "Top Ten Reasons Why Indians Are Good at Basketball," what does the speaker claim that basketball is identical with?
(a) College.
(b) Church.
(c) War.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. On page 32 of "Wolf OR-7," what motifs from earlier poems in the collection recur?

2. 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"?

3. In the opening of "How the Milky Way Was Made," what aspect of the Colorado before its damming is stressed?

4. On page 1 of "Postcolonial Love Poem," what technique is used in the lines, "The seeds sleep like geodes beneath hot feldspar sand"?

5. In "That Which Cannot Be Stilled," what technique is evident in the line, "Four fat quails making a campanile of the mesquite tree" (43)?

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