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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) Lovers, not friends.
(b) Recruits, not rescues.
(c) Moons.
(d) Stars.

2. In "School's Out," what does Gorman warn to beware of?
(a) The Ides of March.
(b) Men who kill.
(c) Women with heels.
(d) Wind.

3. In "At First," what do "we" want to find out?
(a) Who is our parent.
(b) Who made us a slaughterhouse.
(c) What really matters.
(d) Who is our sibling.

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

5. In "Good Grief," what is the origin of the word trauma?
(a) Not just wound, but piercing or turning.
(b) Dying.
(c) Fighting.
(d) Finding.

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

7. In "There's No Power Like Home," what will be a blessing?
(a) If we find a way to eat healthily.
(b) If we die at an older age.
(c) If our children never fully grasp what it took to come to this.
(d) If we find a way to make more money.

8. In "Fugue," what flickers in and out of our vision?
(a) Art.
(b) Truth.
(c) History.
(d) Light.

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

10. In "Lucent," what does lumen mean?
(a) A wire.
(b) A sea.
(c) A friend.
(d) The cavity of an organ and a unit of luminous flux.

11. What does the last line of "Call Us" implore the reader to do?
(a) Call us what we need.
(b) Call us what we carry.
(c) Call us what we know.
(d) Call us what we sing.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Another Nautical," what do we forget, like the water?

2. In "Pre-Memory," how does every memory start?

3. In "Compass," what is the year the size of?

4. In "Memorial," what do we do when we tell a story?

5. In "The Shallows," how does Gorman describe us?

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