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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Earth Eyes," what does the poet ask generations of the past order to be?
(a) Moons.
(b) Recruits, not rescues.
(c) Stars.
(d) Lovers, not friends.

2. In "Alarum," how does the poet describe us?
(a) As the past.
(b) As the future.
(c) As the loud toll on this planet.
(d) As the present.

3. 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 loving of it.
(d) Be mindful of it.

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

5. In "Pre-Memory," how does every memory start?
(a) By knowing thyself.
(b) By finding a tree.
(c) By poking a scar until it speaks.
(d) By finding a carwash.

6. 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.

7. In "Aborescent I," what would we give up for "this one"?
(a) Our love.
(b) Our hope.
(c) Our world.
(d) Our hugs.

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

9. In "Pan," what does pandemic mean?
(a) All water.
(b) All life.
(c) All trees.
(d) All people.

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

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

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

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

14. In "What We Did in the Time Being," what is one think people do?
(a) Vote.
(b) Throw parties.
(c) Go out a lot.
(d) Exercise.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Lighthouse," what have we lost sight of even though we have never met?

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

3. In "Every Day We Are Learning," what can we not possess without practicing it?

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

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

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