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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. Which of the following is noted as the narrator’s brother’s favorite cake?
2. Which of the following terms does the narrator’s father use to refer to methamphetamine?
3. Which of the following is the first line of “Soirée Fantastique”?
4. Which of the following is the first line of “When the Beloved Asks, ‘What Would You Do if You Work Up and I Was a Shark?’”?
5. To which of the following bones does the narrator compare herself and her interlocutor in “Dome Riddle”?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the narrator of “When the Beloved Asks, ‘What Would You Do if You Woke Up and I Was a Shark?’” note answering the question of the title?
2. How does the narrator of “I Lean Out the Window and She Nods Off in Bed, the Needle Gently Rocking on the Bedside Table” note having been created?
3. What does the narrator note possibly wanting to see fall near the end of “Black Magic Brother”?
4. What hellish vision does the narrator’s mother see in “My Brother at 3 A.M.”?
5. For what reason does the narrator note having hosted her brother?
6. How does the narrator of “I Lean Out the Window and She Nods Off in Bed, the Needle Gently Rocking on the Bedside Table” report painting her lover’s arms?
7. How is the room onto which “the door of your hip” opens in “Monday Aubade” described (83)?
8. What does the narrator report her parents seek to become in “As a Consequence of My Brother Stealing All the Lightbulbs”?
9. In “Self-Portrait as a Chimera,” the narrator presents herself as facing execution. How does she relate herself to her lover as she does?
10. How does the narrator summarize the appearance of her parents’ home in “How to Go to Dinner with a Brother on Drugs”?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Fundamentally, whose story is told in When My Brother Was an Aztec? That is, who is the protagonist? How does the collection show it?
Essay Topic 2
What overall attitude towards intoxicants does the collection present? What in the text shows that presentation? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 3
An epigraph is generally expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it precedes. Does the epigraph of When My Brother Was an Aztec do so for its collection? How or how not?
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