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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 45 - 87).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Alarum," what does the poet say we are writing as?
(a) The daughter of a dying world.
(b) An augur.
(c) A friend.
(d) A soothsayer.

2. In "School's Out," what is there power in?
(a) Being wrong.
(b) Being right.
(c) Being smart.
(d) Being robbed and still choosing to dance.

3. In "Pan," how does the poet describe Pandora's box?
(a) As a misnomer.
(b) As a jar left ajar.
(c) As a movie.
(d) As a necessity.

4. In "Earth Eyes," what is clamped down?
(a) Our hair.
(b) Our conscience.
(c) Our jaw.
(d) Our nails.

5. In "Cordage, or Atonement," what does the word atone come from?
(a) The Middle English meshing at and one.
(b) The Greek for alone.
(c) The Spanish for One.
(d) The German for being.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "At First," what did we not expect when we asked how others were faring?

2. In "When," who do we wrap our arms around?

3. In "Fugue," how do we fall into the news?

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

5. In "When," how are we like our joy?

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