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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what does the speaker claim to do with her "mouth of smoke" (14)?
(a) Preserve meat.
(b) Put bees to sleep.
(c) Speak an unknown language.
(d) Fill the room.

3. In "Like Church," to what does the speaker compare the beloved's hip?
(a) An orchard.
(b) The quarter moon.
(c) A searchlight.
(d) A window.

4. In "Asterion's Lament," what does the speaker say is another name for "water" (27)?
(a) "Holy."
(b) "Thread."
(c) "Map."
(d) "Jet."

5. In "Ink-Light," what technique is employed in the line, "I touch her with the eyes of my skin" (34)?
(a) Synechdoche.
(b) Meiosis.
(c) Oxymoron.
(d) Synesthesia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What vehicle is mentioned in the opening of "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word"?

2. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," what does "the seven days of your body" allude to (7)?

3. What is distinctive about the structure of "Blood-Light"?

4. On page 1 of "Postcolonial Love Poem," what technique is used in the lines, "The seeds sleep like geodes beneath hot feldspar sand"?

5. What is significant about the star Antares in "Blood-Light"?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Ink-Light," how are colors used to shift the poem's tone?

2. In "Asterion's Lament," what does the speaker mean by "how did Theseus find no joy in you?" (27)?

3. What relationship exists between the title "Postcolonial Love Poem" and the line, "I learned Drink in a country of drought" (1)?

4. To whom is the speaker alluding in the third strophe of "These Hands, If Not Gods," when she mentions "a sin worth hurting for" (7), and how does the reader know this?

5. In "From the Desire Field," what seems to make the speaker feel better, and to what does she point as a possible, eventual cure for her sleeplessness?

6. In "Run'n'Gun," what impresses the speaker about Clyde's basketball playing?

7. In "Like Church," what is the literal claim about the speaker's window and what is its figurative significance?

8. What play on the word "race" is used in "American Arithmetic"?

9. In "The Mustangs," what is important to the speaker about her brother's appearance?

10. In "From the Desire Field," what is the "desire field," and why does the speaker find herself there?

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