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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Pages 90 - 131).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Memorial," what do we do when we tell a story?
(a) Finding community.
(b) Hearing ourselves.
(c) Honoring a relative.
(d) Living memory.

2. In "The Soldiers (or Plummer)" what happens to Plummer's company on 1/27/19?
(a) Everyone goes home.
(b) Everyone dies in an attack.
(c) Everyone is given paper to write letters on.
(d) It is placed under quarantine.

3. In "Good Grief," what were we once barbed and brutal as?
(a) Books.
(b) Blades.
(c) Hind quarters.
(d) Friends.

4. In "Erasure," what are erasure poems?
(a) Poems that have been written with a pencil eraser.
(b) Poems that no longer exist.
(c) Poems with the pieces plucked out.
(d) Poems that have no meaning.

5. In "Life," what is life?
(a) The line of thinking.
(b) Not what is promised, but what is sought.
(c) The past.
(d) The future.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Cecilia," what do we want to feel?

2. In "War: What, Is It Good?" what is there no such thing as?

3. In "The Soldiers (or Plummer)" what does Plummer write about dying?

4. In "Letter From a Nurse," what does everyone have to do?

5. Who does the poet mention by name in "Pre-Memory?"

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