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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the last line of "Call Us" implore the reader to do?
(a) Call us what we need.
(b) Call us what we sing.
(c) Call us what we know.
(d) Call us what we carry.

2. In "Back to the Past," what is the closest we get to time travel?
(a) Our friends returning.
(b) Our fears softening.
(c) Our lovers dying.
(d) Photos.

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

4. In "Aborescent I" what does Gorman say is at the very root of ourselves?
(a) What goes unseen.
(b) What is right.
(c) What is wrong.
(d) What goes unsaid.

5. In "Cordage, or Atonement," what are we not?
(a) Prophet and profit.
(b) Finders and keepers.
(c) Losers and weepers.
(d) Angel and demon.

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

7. In "When," who do we wrap our arms around?
(a) Nature.
(b) Ourselves.
(c) Death.
(d) Each other.

8. In "At First," what did we become paid professionals of?
(a) Pain.
(b) Gardening.
(c) Eating.
(d) Cooking.

9. In "Every Day We Are Learning," what is one think we learn?
(a) How to forgive ourselves.
(b) How to love better.
(c) How to live with essence, not ease.
(d) How to cook.

10. In "There's No Power Like Home," what were we sick of?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Home.
(c) Dancing.
(d) Vegetables.

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

12. In "Fugue," what flickers in and out of our vision?
(a) Truth.
(b) Art.
(c) History.
(d) Light.

13. In "School's Out," what does the announcement about school seem like?
(a) An axe-blow.
(b) A bad omen.
(c) A winner.
(d) A risk.

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

15. In "Compass," what is this book full of?
(a) Our friends.
(b) Ourselves.
(c) Our moons.
(d) Our stars.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Back to the Past," what will bleed us at times?

2. In "Compass," what is the year the size of?

3. In "Cordage, or Atonement," what is the only color we see?

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

5. In "Good Grief," what were we once barbed and brutal as?

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