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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Pages 90 - 131).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "War: What, Is It Good?" what does the poet say about writing our stories?
(a) It needs a finders' fee.
(b) It is wrong.
(c) It is an essential service.
(d) It is a friendship.

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

3. In "The Soldiers (or Plummer)" what does Plummer write about dying?
(a) It is loving.
(b) It is freeing.
(c) It is blinding.
(d) It is needing.

4. In "Good Grief," what is the origin of the word trauma?
(a) Dying.
(b) Finding.
(c) Fighting.
(d) Not just wound, but piercing or turning.

5. In "The Donohue Family," what do the Donohues own?
(a) A funeral parlor.
(b) A fishery.
(c) A post office.
(d) A bakery.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Aborescent I," what would we give up for "this one"?

2. In "At First," what are our sentences as stilted as?

3. In "School's Out," what does Gorman warn to beware of?

4. In "Alarum," what does the poet say we are writing as?

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

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