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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the name of the first major section in Part I?
(a) Right.
(b) Dream.
(c) Requiem.
(d) Wrong.

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

7. In "Hephaestus," what is "that clear plunge"?
(a) A friend.
(b) A balm.
(c) The beginning of what we ought to become.
(d) A relief.

8. In "Pre-Memory," what is trauma like?
(a) A reason.
(b) An enemy.
(c) A season.
(d) A friend.

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

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

11. 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.

12. 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.

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

14. In "Essex I," what book did the tragedy involving the Essex inspire?
(a) The Soldier.
(b) Moby Dick.
(c) Nickolas Nickleby.
(d) The Friend.

15. In "Another Nautical," what do we forget, like the water?
(a) Men.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Workers.
(d) Friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Surviving," what might not we be fully sure of?

2. In "Life," what is life?

3. In "Hephaestus," what have we fallen into?

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

5. In "School's Out," what is not needed for graduation day?

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