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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. Whose journals does "The Soldiers (or Plummer)" draw from?
(a) Mike Plummer's.
(b) Roy Underwood Plummer's.
(c) Henry Plummer's.
(d) Andy Plummer's.

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

3. In "Life," what is life?
(a) Not what is promised, but what is sought.
(b) The line of thinking.
(c) The past.
(d) The future.

4. In "School's Out," what does Gorman warn to beware of?
(a) Men who kill.
(b) Women with heels.
(c) The Ides of March.
(d) Wind.

5. In "There's No Power Like Home," what will be a blessing?
(a) If our children never fully grasp what it took to come to this.
(b) If we die at an older age.
(c) If we find a way to eat healthily.
(d) If we find a way to make more money.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Cordage, or Atonement," what animal are we?

2. In "Captive," what floods the streets?

3. In "Cordage, or Atonement," what does the word atone come from?

4. In "[Ours]," who has been cured?

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

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