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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In "The Mustangs," where does the speaker go to high school?
2. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the speaker refers to "Atman." Which idea is this Hindu concept related most closely to?
3. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what is the literal meaning of the figurative lines, "an American drone finds then loves/ a body--the radiant nectar it seeks" (15)?
4. In "The Mustangs," what is the purpose of mentioning the brother's "thin ankles" (35)?
5. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the speaker addresses a lover who is not present in the poem. What technique is this an example of?
Short Essay Questions
1. In "Wolf OR-7," what metaphor is employed in the section of the poem where the speaker claims, "Some things cannot be charted" (32)?
2. What play on the word "race" is used in "American Arithmetic"?
3. In what way does the page 1 opening line of "Postcolonial Love Poem," ("I've been taught bloodstones can cure a snakebite") center the Mojave worldview?
4. Explain the conceit introduced by the line, "I know another name for holy is water" in "Asterion's Lament" (27).
5. In "Ink-Light," how are colors used to shift the poem's tone?
6. In "Skin-Light," what is the "work of all good yokes" (22)?
7. What does the speaker mean in "They Don't Love You Like I Love You" when she says that she can see through maps?
8. In "The Mustangs," how are mustangs used symbolically?
9. What is a literal summary of the action of "Blood-Light"?
10. In "Like Church," what claim is made about what whites compare Native people to?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay in which you make and defend a claim about the ways in which Diaz's work blends the Western and the indigenous. Use evidence from at least five poems in the collection as support for your ideas; if you use outside sources, be sure to cite them in MLA format.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay in which you contrast the natural and the man-made in Postcolonial Love Poem. How are images and details in these two categories employed? In what contexts? What do they seem to signify? Consider these questions and any others that seem relevant as you defend a thesis that makes a claim about how the natural and man-made differ in this collection.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that examines Diaz's use of structure and formatting. Choose one or more poems and create a thesis that makes a claim about her use of structure and formatting in your chosen poem(s). How does she use space on the page and linebreak to group ideas, control pace, and create emphasis? Be sure to support your ideas with textual evidence.
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