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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 132 - 173).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Plummer say whites do not love in "The Soldiers (or Plummer)"?
(a) Playing.
(b) Sharing.
(c) Mixing.
(d) Eating.

2. In "The Donohue Family Ledgers," what can our common era tell?
(a) Who a person was.
(b) When a person loses.
(c) When a person wins.
(d) What a person does.

3. In "_ _ _ _ _ [Gated]," what did we probably think was about us?
(a) The peace.
(b) The pandemic.
(c) The war.
(d) This poem.

4. In "War: What, Is It Good?" what does the poet say about writing our stories?
(a) It is a friendship.
(b) It needs a finders' fee.
(c) It is wrong.
(d) It is an essential service.

5. In "America," what does our country seldom count?
(a) All who strive.
(b) All who matter.
(c) All who sing.
(d) All who vote.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Alarum," what does the poet say we are writing as?

2. In "Hephaestus," what is "that clear plunge"?

3. In "The Truth In One Nation," what can keep you safe?

4. In "Lucent," what are we stripped down like?

5. In "Earth Eyes," what does the poet ask generations of the past order to be?

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