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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Pan," how does the poet describe Pandora's box?
(a) As a jar left ajar.
(b) As a necessity.
(c) As a misnomer.
(d) As a movie.

2. In "Fugue," what are handshakes and hugs like?
(a) Faults.
(b) Lovers.
(c) Friends.
(d) Gifts.

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

4. In "Pan," what does Pan itself mean?
(a) Frying pan.
(b) God of books.
(c) God of the underworld.
(d) God of nature.

5. In "The Shallows," what does Gorman implore people to do after grieving?
(a) Walk.
(b) Die.
(c) Chose.
(d) Eat.

6. 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 make more money.
(d) If we find a way to eat healthily.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. In "Cordage, or Atonement," what is the only color we see?
(a) Black.
(b) Orange.
(c) Red.
(d) Blue.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "School's Out," what does Gorman warn to beware of?

2. In "Earth Eyes," what is clamped down?

3. In "Fugue," what do we truly mean when we say goodbye?

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

5. In "Compass," what is there no better compass than?

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