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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. In "Skin-Light," what is the most likely antecedent of "it" in the line "My whole life I have obeyed it" (21)?
(a) "Skin-Light."
(b) This "god-made place."
(c) "The opened-gold field."
(d) The "glide of the hand."

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

3. Which of the following is the best descriptor of the tone of "American Arithmetic"?
(a) Solemn.
(b) Ambivalent.
(c) Mordant.
(d) Macabre.

4. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," who tells the speaker "Don't stray" (19)?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her lover.
(c) Her friend.
(d) Her brother.

5. In "Like Church," what does the speaker say she has "escaped through" (29)?
(a) The beloved's body.
(b) The window.
(c) Dirty water.
(d) A searchlight.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what is the speaker's objection to her lover saying, "You make me feel like lightening" (15)?

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

3. In "Blood-Light," what is the speaker imagining with the words, "Don't you want a little light in your belly?"

4. 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)?

5. In "From the Desire Field," what other poet is alluded to?

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