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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. In "Another Nautical," what do we forget, like the water?
(a) Men.
(b) Workers.
(c) Friends.
(d) Nothing.

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

10. In "Cut," what is there no meek way to do?
(a) Mend.
(b) Fight.
(c) Buy things.
(d) Eat.

11. In "Earth Eyes," what is clamped down?
(a) Our nails.
(b) Our hair.
(c) Our jaw.
(d) Our conscience.

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

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

14. In "Compass," what is the year the size of?
(a) A whale.
(b) A watch.
(c) A bone.
(d) A sea.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Hephaestus," what is the debt we always owed each other?

2. In "Lighthouse," what is no human to us in the last line?

3. In "Every Day We Are Learning," what can we not possess without practicing it?

4. In "Surviving," what are we flooded by when tragedy threatens to end us?

5. In "Cordage, or Atonement," what should we take back, if only for this newborn day?

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