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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Cordage, or Atonement," what are we not?
(a) Losers and weepers.
(b) Prophet and profit.
(c) Angel and demon.
(d) Finders and keepers.

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

3. In "The Shallows," how do we stand?
(a) Stone-still.
(b) Moving.
(c) Raucously.
(d) Suspiciously.

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

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

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

7. In "Alarum," how does the poet describe us?
(a) As the future.
(b) As the present.
(c) As the past.
(d) As the loud toll on this planet.

8. In "Ship's Manifest," what are we waiting for?
(a) To rise.
(b) To eat.
(c) To die.
(d) To remember what it is we're supposed to be doing.

9. In "Captive," what floods the streets?
(a) Animals.
(b) Water.
(c) Friends.
(d) Trees.

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

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

12. In "At First," what are our sentences as stilted as?
(a) A frog.
(b) A telegram.
(c) A walk.
(d) A phone.

13. In "Ship's Manifest," which of the following does Gorman compare the book to?
(a) A religious experience.
(b) A sing.
(c) A message in a bottle.
(d) A light.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Surviving," what might not we be fully sure of?

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

3. In "Cordage, or Atonement," what did we have to be to be part of the living?

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

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

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