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- 1. Multiple Choice
The phrase "tobacco brown bones" in line 3 refers to
bones that have turned brown in the sun.
Creeks who died in New Orleans.
Creeks who worked on tobacco plantations.
teeth stained with tobacco juice.
- 2. Multiple Choice
In lines 21–24, the speaker says, “I have a memory. / It swims deep in blood, / a delta in the skin. It swims out of Oklahoma, / deep the Mississippi River.” The speaker’s memory is
related to a bloody battle.
about someone who drowned.
part of his or her cultural heritage.
too painful to talk about.
- 3. Multiple Choice
The phrase “future children / buried beneath the currents” (lines 33–34) refers to
children born after the Creek removal to Oklahoma.
children who will die in future hurricanes and floods.
Creeks who return to their childhood home to be buried.
unborn children of Creeks who died in New Orleans.
- 4. Multiple Choice
What did DeSoto come to New Orleans to find?
"a blue horse"
"golden treasure"
"magic stones"
"a drink on Bourbon Street"
- 5. Multiple Choice
The speaker says that DeSoto looked for “shining streets / of beaten gold to dance on with silk ladies” (lines 40–41). These lines characterize DeSoto as
violent
sophisticated
ambitious
creative
- 6. Multiple Choice
Which lines create a vivid sensory image for readers?
"This is the south. I look for evidence / of other Creeks."
“stale rooms, the sun behind thick and moist / clouds”
"He is buried somewhere in / this river."
“Creeks knew of him for miles / before he came into town”
- 7. Multiple Choice
Which image describes how the Creeks lived?
"earth towns"
"gold cities"
"pleasure boats"
"silk buildings"
- 8. Multiple Choice
“Black mammy dolls / holding white babies” (lines 66–67) represent black women who
have no families of their own.
rescue white children in a flood.
have a vision of racial harmony.
care for white people's children.
- 9. Multiple Choice
What two things does blood most strongly symbolize in the poem?
violence against Creeks, the memory of a culture
the Mississippi River, fighting between cultures
dangers faced by explorers, the speaker’s heartbeat
nourishment for the spirit, a desire for conquest
- 10. Multiple Choice
Which statement best expresses a theme of the poem?
It’s better to leave the past dead and buried.
It’s important to keep cultural memories alive.
People of many races have memories of New Orleans.
Remembering the past leads to personal happiness.
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