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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6: "The Cure for Melancholy Is to Take the Horn" through "Grief Work".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Wolf OR-7," what is the "trembling blue line" (32)?
(a) The GPS map of the wolf's movements.
(b) The line connecting stars in a constellation.
(c) The Colorado River.
(d) The path the speaker travels to find the beloved.

2. In "Isn't the Air Also a Body, Moving?" what is anger said to be a demand for?
(a) Apology.
(b) Reparations.
(c) Love.
(d) Respect.

3. On page 21 of "Skin-Light," what other name for Teotlachco is given?
(a) "Calabash."
(b) "Lamp-Land."
(c) "Light-well."
(d) "Chalcedony."

4. What technique is used in "American Arithmetic" in the page 17 line "O, mine efficient country"?
(a) Metonymy.
(b) Synechdoche.
(c) Apostrophe.
(d) Paraprosdokian.

5. In "I, Minotaur," what does the speaker call "lilac-lit pools of ablution" (57)?
(a) The beloved's thighs.
(b) The desert flowers.
(c) The light that she and her lover find together.
(d) Her self-inflicted wounds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the title "The Mustangs" refer to?

2. In "That Which Cannot Be Stilled," what American poet's death is mentioned?

3. In "Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera," to what object does the speaker compare her camera?

4. In "Like Church," what fruit does the speaker say the afterlife will be full of?

5. In "The Cure for Melancholy Is to Take the Horn," the speaker mentions an "alcazar." What is an alcazar?

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