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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. Who wrote parts of "[Ours]"?
(a) John Adams.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) George Washington.
(d) Alexander Hamilton.

2. In "Ship's Manifest," which of the following does Gorman compare the book to?
(a) A light.
(b) A message in a bottle.
(c) A religious experience.
(d) A sing.

3. In "War: What, Is It Good?" which battles are the hardest to win?
(a) The big ones.
(b) The small ones.
(c) The invisible ones.
(d) The lucky ones.

4. In "The Soldiers (or Plummer)" why does Plummer say they might stay a while in the war?
(a) The weather is good.
(b) They do not kill "us" here as they do in America.
(c) The food is good.
(d) They like the countryside.

5. In "Augury of the Birds," what is the only way to correctly predict the future?
(a) To pave it.
(b) To ignore it.
(c) To love it.
(d) To break it.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "America," what does our country seldom count?

2. Whose journals does "The Soldiers (or Plummer)" draw from?

3. In "Letter From a Nurse," when was the letter written?

4. In "There's No Power Like Home," what did the mask around our ear do?

5. In "Erasure," what are erasure poems?

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