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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Hephaestus," what have we fallen into?
(a) A sea of grief.
(b) A lake of lions.
(c) A cave of cavendish.
(d) An era of error.

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

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

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

5. In "Pre-Memory," what is all we know so far?
(a) That we love each other.
(b) That we are so far from what we know.
(c) How to find peace.
(d) How to live well.

6. In "Good Grief," what were we once barbed and brutal as?
(a) Blades.
(b) Books.
(c) Hind quarters.
(d) Friends.

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

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

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

10. In "Lighthouse," what is the heart chambered by?
(a) Hope.
(b) Fear.
(c) Love.
(d) Grief.

11. In "Cordage, or Atonement," what did we have to be to be part of the living?
(a) Be wary of it.
(b) Be mindful of it.
(c) Be apart from it.
(d) Be loving of it.

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

13. In "School's Out," what is not needed for graduation day?
(a) A gown.
(b) A shoe.
(c) A fairy.
(d) A sandwich.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "At First," what did we become paid professionals of?

2. In "Pan," how does the poet describe Pandora's box?

3. In "Another Nautical," what suffix does the poet consider?

4. In "Essex I," what were whales killed for?

5. What is behind us in "Ship's Manifest"?

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