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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I (Pages 1 - 44).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "At First," how do we find the rhetoric of reunion?
(a) By reading a lot.
(b) By letting love reclaim our tongues.
(c) By using a dictionary.
(d) By studying great speeches.

2. In "Cut," what is there no simple way to do?
(a) Hurt.
(b) Heal.
(c) Eat.
(d) Grieve.

3. In "Fugue," how do we fall into the news?
(a) With happiness.
(b) With angst.
(c) With longing.
(d) Head-first, dread-first.

4. In "The Shallows," how do we stand?
(a) Moving.
(b) Stone-still.
(c) Raucously.
(d) Suspiciously.

5. In "Ship's Manifest," what are we waiting for?
(a) To rise.
(b) To remember what it is we're supposed to be doing.
(c) To eat.
(d) To die.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Another Nautical," what suffix does the poet consider?

2. In "Fugue," what flickers in and out of our vision?

3. In "Fugue," what do we truly mean when we say goodbye?

4. In "What We Did in the Time Being," what is one think people do?

5. In "Essex I," what were whales killed for?

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