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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 174 - 211).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Letter From a Nurse," what does everyone have to do?
(a) Die.
(b) Work.
(c) Learn.
(d) Live.

2. In "America," what does it mean to be divided as a nation?
(a) To be hated.
(b) To be devastated.
(c) To be loved.
(d) To be unfairly drawn.

3. In "Roses," what are the "we" in the poem sick of?
(a) Finding enemies.
(b) Finding friends.
(c) Fighting.
(d) Dying.

4. In "War: What, Is It Good?" what is our medal of honor?
(a) The food.
(b) The medal.
(c) The mask.
(d) The jokes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Letter From a Nurse," what can the writer not help but do?

2. In "Surviving," what are we flooded by when tragedy threatens to end us?

3. In "Libations," what do we listen to?

4. In "Cordage, or Atonement," what did we have to be to be part of the living?

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

(see the answer key)

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