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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "When," how are we like our joy?
(a) We are not wrong.
(b) We are fleeting but certain.
(c) We are tall but fair.
(d) We are true but fair.

2. In "Cut," what is there no meek way to do?
(a) Buy things.
(b) Eat.
(c) Mend.
(d) Fight.

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

4. Who does the poet mention by name in "Pre-Memory?"
(a) Helen Begley.
(b) Enela Rigora.
(c) Marianne Hirsch.
(d) Michael Rinder.

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

6. In "Cordage, or Atonement," what did we have to be to be part of the living?
(a) Be wary of it.
(b) Be apart from it.
(c) Be mindful of it.
(d) Be loving of it.

7. In "Surviving," what might not we be fully sure of?
(a) All that we can not be.
(b) All that we wanted to be.
(c) All that we may be.
(d) All that we are.

8. In "Another Nautical," what suffix does the poet consider?
(a) -sitting.
(b) -putting.
(c) -ship.
(d) -friend.

9. In "Essex I," what were whales killed for?
(a) Blubber.
(b) Skin.
(c) Tongues.
(d) Brains.

10. In "Compass," what is the hardest part of grief?
(a) Giving it a name.
(b) Ignoring it.
(c) Loving it.
(d) Accepting it.

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

12. In "The Shallows," how do we stand?
(a) Raucously.
(b) Suspiciously.
(c) Moving.
(d) Stone-still.

13. In "Fugue," what are handshakes and hugs like?
(a) Faults.
(b) Friends.
(c) Lovers.
(d) Gifts.

14. In "Compass," what is there no better compass than?
(a) Ownership.
(b) Compassion.
(c) Friendliness.
(d) Help.

15. In "Pan," what does Pan itself mean?
(a) Frying pan.
(b) God of nature.
(c) God of the underworld.
(d) God of books.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Alarum," how does the poet describe us?

2. In "Aborescent I" what does Gorman say is at the very root of ourselves?

3. In "At First," how do we find the rhetoric of reunion?

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

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

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