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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In "Pan," what does pandemonium mean?
(a) All earth.
(b) All demon.
(c) All trees.
(d) All water.

4. In "Hephaestus," what have we fallen into?
(a) A lake of lions.
(b) A cave of cavendish.
(c) A sea of grief.
(d) An era of error.

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

6. In "Cordage, or Atonement," what animal are we?
(a) The bird.
(b) The badger.
(c) The dog.
(d) The whale.

7. In "Compass," what is the year the size of?
(a) A bone.
(b) A watch.
(c) A sea.
(d) A whale.

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

9. In "Cordage, or Atonement," what is the only color we see?
(a) Blue.
(b) Red.
(c) Black.
(d) Orange.

10. In "At First," what did we not expect when we asked how others were faring?
(a) A farm.
(b) A song.
(c) An honest or full response.
(d) A job.

11. In "Hephaestus," what is the debt we always owed each other?
(a) Grief.
(b) Concern.
(c) Hate.
(d) Love.

12. What is behind us in "Ship's Manifest"?
(a) The worst.
(b) The unknowable.
(c) The in-between.
(d) The best.

13. In "The Shallows," how does Gorman describe us?
(a) Sad.
(b) Touch-deficient and light-starved.
(c) Happy.
(d) Suspicious.

14. In "The Shallows," what does Gorman implore people to do after grieving?
(a) Walk.
(b) Chose.
(c) Eat.
(d) Die.

15. In "Lucent," what are we stripped down like?
(a) A fable.
(b) A bear.
(c) A lightbulb.
(d) A wintered tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Another Nautical," what are words like, in a similar way to water?

2. What does the last line of "Call Us" implore the reader to do?

3. In "Essex I," what was the Essex?

4. In "Good Grief," what is the origin of the word trauma?

5. In "There's No Power Like Home," what did the mask around our ear do?

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