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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In "The First Water Is the Body," what word does the speaker borrow from John Berger?
(a) "Pre-verbal."
(b) "Channeled."
(c) "Submerge."
(d) "Juxtaposition."

3. In "My Brother, My Wound," where does the speaker's brother say he is going in the end of the poem?
(a) To buy a camera.
(b) To lie in the desert under the moon.
(c) To ride a Ferris wheel.
(d) To find a yellow dog.

4. In "That Which Cannot Be Stilled," what does the speaker "diagnose" herself and the reservation as?
(a) Dirty.
(b) Peaceful.
(c) Dream-like.
(d) Rusting.

5. In "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," what techniques are employed in the line "Swing switch sway. Hold the day away a little" (37)?
(a) Internal rhyme and onomatopoeia.
(b) Blank verse and alliteration.
(c) Alliteration and internal rhyme.
(d) Onomatopoeia and blank verse.

6. In "Snake-Light," what is the rhetorical purpose of mentioning the butterflies?
(a) They symbolize the lingering and then departure of the snake's spirit.
(b) They symbolize transformation and the creation of life from death.
(c) They symbolize the beauty of the desert ecosystem.
(d) They symbolize the lightness and freedom of shedding the body.

7. In "Grief Work," what do the words "Auxocromo" and "Cromóforo" refer to?
(a) Famous bullfighters.
(b) Aztec gods.
(c) Constellations.
(d) Molecular structures.

8. In "Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera," why does the speaker take her brother's call?
(a) Because she thinks that it is someone else calling.
(b) Because she wants to tell him about the cranes.
(c) Because he will keep calling until she does.
(d) Because he might be in danger.

9. In "It Was the Animals," what does the speaker's brother tell her she can read about on the wood he has found?
(a) The end of the world.
(b) The "rules" for getting into Heaven.
(c) The true story of Creation.
(d) The secret names of God.

10. In "Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera," where is the speaker?
(a) Iola, Kansas.
(b) Kearney, Nebraska.
(c) Pratt, Kansas.
(d) Chadron, Nebraska.

11. In "Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera," to what does the speaker compare the camera's aperture?
(a) A wound.
(b) A mouth.
(c) An eye.
(d) A lake.

12. In the context of "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," in the expression "madre mías," what is the most likely reason that mía is made plural?
(a) To indicate more than one exclamation.
(b) The mother of someone named "Mia" is being discussed.
(c) This is how the acronym for "missing in action" is made plural in Spanish.
(d) More than one mother is being discussed.

13. In "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," what war is alluded to?
(a) The Texas-Indian Wars.
(b) The Peloponnesian War.
(c) The Trojan War.
(d) The Battle of Red Cliffs.

14. In "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," why are pears, apples, and figs specifically mentioned?
(a) This refers back to the earlier allusion to Alcinous.
(b) This is an allusion to a 20th century American pop song.
(c) These are fruits commonly used as symbols of the female form.
(d) These are the fruits grown in the Garden of Eden.

15. In "Snake-Light," what does the speaker dream about?
(a) Snakes trying to talk to her.
(b) That her arms have turned into snakes.
(c) Snakes turning into White people.
(d) That her pickup truck is full of snakes.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "How the Milky Way Was Made," what do the Natives lift into the sky?

2. In "It Was the Animals," what does the speaker want to do that her brother stops her from doing?

3. In "Isn't the Air Also a Body, Moving?" the use of the word "coppered" is an example of which literary technique (73)?

4. In "Grief Work," what is the "black flower" the speaker mentions in the opening of the poem, on page 93?

5. In "The Cure for Melancholy Is to Take the Horn," what British monarch is mentioned?

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