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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 "Top Ten Reasons Why Indians Are Good at Basketball," what does the speaker claim that Indian sweat smells like?
(a) Airplane glue and potato chips.
(b) Grape juice and Air Jordans.
(c) WD-40 and cake.
(d) Tortillas and Pine-Sol.

2. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what creature does the speaker claim is walking down West 29th Street?
(a) A coyote.
(b) A lion.
(c) A rabbit.
(d) A bull.

3. In "Skin-Light," what is the likely antecedent of "this" in "This is the war I was born for" (22)?
(a) Her relationship with her lover.
(b) The battle against erasure.
(c) Her relationship with her brother.
(d) The struggle for Native sovereignty.

4. In "Isn't the Air Also a Body, Moving?" the use of the word "coppered" is an example of which literary technique (73)?
(a) Anthimeria.
(b) Oxymoron.
(c) Zeugma.
(d) Syllepsis.

5. In "That Which Cannot Be Stilled," where does the speaker's recurring dream take place?
(a) At a high-school basketball game.
(b) In a New York hotel room.
(c) In her mother's kitchen.
(d) At the edge of the reservation.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Asterion's Lament," to what is the beloved's body compared besides water?

2. In "Snake-Light," what tradition does the speaker critique?

3. In "My Brother, My Wound," what does the speaker's brother call into the house?

4. In "Asterion's Lament," the speaker talks about "the slake of a monster's appetite" (28). What does "slake" mean in this context?

5. In "Waist and Sway," the passage in which jackdaws wait on the garden walls compares the lover to what?

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