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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Lighthouse," what have we lost sight of even though we have never met?
(a) The stars.
(b) The moon.
(c) The sun.
(d) Each other.

2. In "Captive," what floods the streets?
(a) Animals.
(b) Trees.
(c) Water.
(d) Friends.

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

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

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

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

7. In "Surviving," what are we flooded by when tragedy threatens to end us?
(a) By what is felt.
(b) By what is hard.
(c) By what is easy.
(d) By what is unsaid.

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

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

10. In "& So," how does grief leave when it goes?
(a) Softly.
(b) With joy.
(c) With sadness.
(d) With a bang.

11. In "Life," what is life?
(a) The line of thinking.
(b) The future.
(c) The past.
(d) Not what is promised, but what is sought.

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

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

14. In "Lucent," what is the most beautiful star?
(a) Nothing but a monster.
(b) A friend.
(c) A mirage.
(d) A lover.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Compass," what is the hardest part of grief?

2. What is the name of the first major section in Part I?

3. In "The Shallows," how do we stand?

4. In "Cut," what is there no meek way to do?

5. In "Fugue," what are handshakes and hugs like?

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