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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: "Asterion's Lament" through "The Mustangs".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On page 9 of "Catching Copper," how do the brothers walk their bullet?
(a) "With a moan."
(b) "Like a date."
(c) "With a limp."
(d) "Like a bee."

2. On page 23 of "Run'n'Gun," the speaker says, "we became coyotes and rivers." What technique is being used in this line?
(a) Allusion.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Double entendre.

3. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," what kind of person does the speaker want to love her?
(a) Someone who is not American.
(b) Someone long dead.
(c) Someone white.
(d) Someone who understands her.

4. In "The Mustangs," what figure of speech is employed in the phrase "hooves rumbling like weather in my ears" (35)?
(a) Synesthesia.
(b) Simile.
(c) Pathetic Fallacy.
(d) Personification.

5. In "Catching Copper," what does the acronym "CIB" stand for?
(a) Citizens Information Board.
(b) Combat Infantryman Badge.
(c) Certificate of Indian Blood.
(d) Criminal Investigation Branch.

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is used in "American Arithmetic" in the page 17 line "O, mine efficient country"?

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

3. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," when the speaker says that "Maps are ghosts," what technique is being used?

4. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," who tells the speaker "Don't stray" (19)?

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

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