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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word" through "Run'n'Gun".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Blood-Light," what does the speaker say the story is about?
(a) Stars.
(b) Land.
(c) Love.
(d) Blood.

2. On page 1 of "Postcolonial Love Poem," what technique is used in the lines, "The seeds sleep like geodes beneath hot feldspar sand"?
(a) Personification.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Metonymy.

3. What vehicle is mentioned in the opening of "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word"?
(a) Subway train.
(b) Airplane.
(c) Taxi.
(d) Ambulance.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what is the literal meaning of the figurative lines, "an American drone finds then loves/ a body--the radiant nectar it seeks" (15)?

3. In "From the Desire Field," what does the line "verde, te quiero verde" literally translate to (12)?

4. What is implied in "Postcolonial Love Poem's" allusion to the wars "which started me, which I lost and won"?

5. On page 9 of "Catching Copper," how do the brothers walk their bullet?

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