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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is behind us in "Ship's Manifest"?
(a) The in-between.
(b) The worst.
(c) The best.
(d) The unknowable.

2. In "Aborescent I," what would we give up for "this one"?
(a) Our hope.
(b) Our world.
(c) Our love.
(d) Our hugs.

3. 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 sing.
(d) Call us what we know.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. In "Another Nautical," what are words like, in a similar way to water?
(a) A type of loving.
(b) A type of dying.
(c) A type of washing.
(d) A type of finding.

12. In "Every Day We Are Learning," what can we not possess without practicing it?
(a) Love.
(b) Fear.
(c) Hate.
(d) Hope.

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

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

15. In "When," who do we wrap our arms around?
(a) Ourselves.
(b) Death.
(c) Nature.
(d) Each other.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Alarum," how does the poet describe us?

2. Who does the poet mention by name in "Pre-Memory?"

3. In "Good Grief," what were we once barbed and brutal as?

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

5. In "Back to the Past," what will bleed us at times?

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