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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 "& So," how does grief leave when it goes?
(a) With sadness.
(b) With joy.
(c) With a bang.
(d) Softly.

2. In "What We Did in the Time Being," what is one think people do?
(a) Exercise.
(b) Vote.
(c) Go out a lot.
(d) Throw parties.

3. In "Earth Eyes," what does the poet ask generations of the past order to be?
(a) Moons.
(b) Lovers, not friends.
(c) Recruits, not rescues.
(d) Stars.

4. In "Lucent," what does lumen mean?
(a) A wire.
(b) A friend.
(c) A sea.
(d) The cavity of an organ and a unit of luminous flux.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Shallows," what does Gorman implore people to do after grieving?

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

3. In "Pre-Memory," what is all we know so far?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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