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- 1. Multiple Choice
Why might an author place unrelated sentences next to each other?
This technique stands out, helps lead readers to make inferences about the relationship between sentences
The author wants to discuss how Desoto inspires her
The author reveals the injustices of the removal of Creek indians
All of the above
- 2. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is the best possible inference about how the sentences are related: “Nearby is a shop with ivory and rocks. The man behind the counter has no idea that he is inside magic stones. He should find out before they destroy him. These things have memory, you know"
The man will be purchasing magic from a shop.
One can infer that the man is there for the wrong reasons
No inferences can be made
Red rocks (earth elements) have been here, which makes them magic, whereas ivory came later with settlers
- 3. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is an example of a metaphor in the text?
"I remember DeSoto"
"He should have stayed home"
"(And I hear boats hauling themselves up and down the river)"
"It swims deep in blood, a delta in the skin (lines 22-24)".
- 4. Multiple Choice
Which of the following types of words and/or phrases provide clues to theme in a text?
Themes are explicitly stated, not inferred.
Words or phrases are the same as theme.
Repeated words and phrases/words/ideas
The absence of words and phrases/words/ideas
- 5. Multiple Choice
Which word or phrase is repeated in the following quote: His bones sunk like the golden treasure he traveled half the earth to find….came looking for gold cities, for shining streets of beaten gold to dance on with silk ladies (lines 37-50).
Gold
Earth/Silk
No repetition occurs in this stanza.
All of the above.
- 6. Multiple Choice
Which of the following themes can be inferred from the text: “The Creeks knew it, and drowned him in the Mississippi River so he wouldn’t have to drown himself….I have seen New Orleans, the lace and silk buildings…..black mammy dolls holding white babies…” (lines 55-67).
Death (drowned himself) luxury (lace/silk) racism (mammy dolls)
Death (drowning) Happiness (Lace/Silk) Racism (Mammy Dolls)
Genocide (drowning) Royalty (Lace/Silk) Motherhood (Dolls)
- 7. Multiple Choice
Which of the following best answers why authors use similes in a text?
Author's use similes so they do not have to use metaphors all the time.
Helps readers visualize what the poet is describing, and sometimes they are used to convey a message.
Similes help readers stay focused and engaged.
Authors do whatever they wish during the writing process.
- 8. Multiple Choice
Select the best answer for what the phrase “woman as gold as the river bottom” means (lines 71-72).
The image combines the ideas of women and children dying for the sake of gold
Women are valued as gold is
Women are at the bottom of the social structure.
The image combines women and children to emphasize the nature of motherhood.
- 9. Multiple Choice
PART A: Which of the following words or phrases are examples of color imagery in the poem?
"There are stories here made of memory" (line 36).
"Red rocks" and "Blue horse"
He is buried somehwere in this river (lines 37-38).
"...before he came into town" (line 44-45).
- 10. Multiple Choice
PART B: Select the best possible answer for the effect the previous words or phrases create on the poem *Blue horse/Red rocks*
Color imagery is emphasizing the dangerous nature of earth elements
Color imagery is emphasizing how inspirational nature can be
Color imagery is emphasizing the frozen nature of the statue and making blood-red rocks seem alive.
- 11. Multiple Choice
In lines 12-13, the speaker says, “I know it wasn’t just a horse/that went crazy” What do you think the speaker means? Who else might have gone crazy?
Everyone went crazy, it is 2020.
The Native American Creek tribe went crazy as they were forcibly removed.
People of New Orleans went crazy on Bourbon street. Litty.
The Spanish conquerors who brought the horse and the Creeks who had to leave might also have gone crazy
- 12. Multiple Choice
In lines 64, the speaker refers to “beaten silver paths” To what does this image refer, and how is it connected to the “silver blades and crosses” in lines 45-46?
DeSoto frequently practiced Martial Arts--hence the blades and crosses.
DeSoto enjoyed the finer things in life, such as blades and crosses.
They refer to New Orleans car rails, and they relate because they are all things brought by Europeans to the Americas.
- 13. Multiple Choice
What does DeSoto represent to the speaker?
Positive history/her background.
The madness of greed.
The flourishing of the city of New Orleans.
- 14. Multiple Choice
Which of the following words or phrases support that DeSoto represents greed?
“shining streets of beaten gold” and his drinking and dancing on Bourbon street (lines 68-82).
"My spirit comes here to drink/Blood is the undercurrent"
"He should have stayed home"
"the sun behind thick and moist clouds, and I hear boats hauling themselves..."
- 15. Multiple Choice
What might be a theme the author wants to communicate about the importance of place?
Harjo wants to communicate the importance of New Orleans.
To the speaker, New Orleans represents wealth and prosperity.
To the speaker, the place is not important, but memories are.
Harjo might want to communicate that the things that have happened in a place give it a symbolic importance.
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