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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 does the narrator note has been disassembled in “As a Consequence of My Brother Stealing All the Lightbulbs”?
2. Which of the following is the first line of “I Watch Her Eat the Apple”?
3. Which of the following is the first line of “Lorca’s Red Dresses”?
4. In “Self-Portrait as a Chimera,” the narrator’s mother has a temple at which of the following?
5. How long does the narrator claim her mother has wept?
Short Essay Questions
1. In “Self-Portrait as a Chimera,” the narrator presents herself as facing execution. How does she relate herself to her lover as she does?
2. In what circumstances does the narrator of “When the Beloved Asks, ‘What Would You Do if You Woke Up and I Was a Shark?’” note having considered the question of the title?
3. What music does the narrator claim to hear when her beloved eats an apple?
4. How does the narrator summarize the appearance of her parents’ home in “How to Go to Dinner with a Brother on Drugs”?
5. What is the concluding couplet of “Lorca’s Red Dresses”?
6. What annoyance does the narrator note finding in Jesus in “Soirée Fantastique”?
7. 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?
8. How does the narrator report having interacted with Cortés in “Self-Portrait as a Chimera”?
9. What hellish vision does the narrator’s mother see in “My Brother at 3 A.M.”?
10. In what ways does the narrator note that she and her siblings are bestial in “Zoology”?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
A number of the poems in the collection are divided into smaller sections. For one such poem, what function does the division into sections serve, and how is that function manifested?
Essay Topic 2
Near the beginning of “Other Small Thundering,” the narrator makes mention of “Charon’s narrow skiffs” (31). What purpose does the Classical reference serve? How is that purpose enacted?
Essay Topic 3
What significance inheres in the nonstandard spellings in the title “Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination of Anglikan Seraphym Subjugation of a Wild Indian Rezervation,” and how do you know?
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