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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 "Like Church," what fruit does the speaker say the afterlife will be full of?
(a) Melons.
(b) Pomegranates.
(c) Apples.
(d) Figs.

2. In "American Arithmetic," what does the narrator suggest is better than being invisible?
(a) Being loved.
(b) Being heard.
(c) Being dead.
(d) Being lonely.

3. In the page 27 lines from "Asterion's Lament," "Let me be your tender captain, ferry/ the ultramarine thread you unraveled"" what literary technique is being employed?
(a) Apologia.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Double entente.
(d) Epistrophe.

4. In "Wolf OR-7," what word does the speaker say can also mean "touch" (32)?
(a) Love.
(b) Bite.
(c) Howl.
(d) Know.

5. In "Like Church," what does the speaker mean by "It is real work not to perform/ a fable" (30)?
(a) Fairy tales and fables create unrealistic expectation about love.
(b) She feels controlled by her partner's whims and desires.
(c) It is easy to fall into the trap of fulfilling a stereotype.
(d) She worries about assuming that she knows how her relationship will end.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Blood-Light," what does the speaker say the story is about?

2. In "Skin-Light," the speaker refers to "violet, biliruben/ bloom." What is she describing?

3. In "Ink-Light," the speaker mentions "the ramus" of which of the beloved's body parts?

4. In "Skin-Light," what is the most likely antecedent of "it" in the line "My whole life I have obeyed it" (21)?

5. In "Catching Copper," what kind of "comb" is meant in the page 9 lines, "you should see my brothers' bullet/ make a comb, by chewing holes/ in what is sweet"?

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