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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. In "& So," what it is easy to do?
(a) Flee.
(b) Find.
(c) Harp.
(d) Heal.

7. In "Back to the Past," what will bleed us at times?
(a) Our blessings.
(b) Our soil.
(c) Our jobs.
(d) Our friends.

8. In "Compass," what is this book full of?
(a) Our moons.
(b) Our friends.
(c) Ourselves.
(d) Our stars.

9. In "Cordage, or Atonement," what should we take back, if only for this newborn day?
(a) Our lives.
(b) Our lovers.
(c) Our friends.
(d) Our jobs.

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

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

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

13. 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.

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

15. In "Fugue," what do we truly mean when we say goodbye?
(a) We will not meet again.
(b) We need better friends.
(c) We are always alone.
(d) Let us be able to say hello again.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "Hephaestus," what is the debt we always owed each other?

3. In "Captive," what floods the streets?

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

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

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