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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. In "Lucent," what are we stripped down like?
(a) A lightbulb.
(b) A bear.
(c) A fable.
(d) A wintered tree.

11. In "& So," how does grief leave when it goes?
(a) With sadness.
(b) With a bang.
(c) With joy.
(d) Softly.

12. In "Fugue," how do we fall into the news?
(a) With angst.
(b) With happiness.
(c) Head-first, dread-first.
(d) With longing.

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

14. In "There's No Power Like Home," what did the mask around our ear do?
(a) Got bigger.
(b) Got dirty.
(c) Got lost.
(d) Hung itself into the year.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Compass," what is this book full of?

2. In "Cut," what is there no simple way to do?

3. In "What We Did in the Time Being," what is one think people do?

4. In "Pan," what does pandemonium mean?

5. In "There's No Power Like Home," what will be a blessing?

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