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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 did we have to be to be part of the living?
(a) Be wary of it.
(b) Be loving of it.
(c) Be apart from it.
(d) Be mindful of it.

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

3. In "Cordage, or Atonement," what should we take back, if only for this newborn day?
(a) Our friends.
(b) Our lives.
(c) Our lovers.
(d) Our jobs.

4. In "Surviving," what might not we be fully sure of?
(a) All that we can not be.
(b) All that we are.
(c) All that we may be.
(d) All that we wanted to be.

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

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

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

8. In "At First," how do we find the rhetoric of reunion?
(a) By reading a lot.
(b) By using a dictionary.
(c) By letting love reclaim our tongues.
(d) By studying great speeches.

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

10. In "Cordage, or Atonement," what animal are we?
(a) The whale.
(b) The dog.
(c) The bird.
(d) The badger.

11. In "There's No Power Like Home," what were we sick of?
(a) Vegetables.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Home.
(d) Dancing.

12. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Lucent," what is the most beautiful star?

2. In "The Shallows," how does Gorman describe us?

3. In "Cordage, or Atonement," what are we not?

4. In "Aborescent I" what does Gorman say is at the very root of ourselves?

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

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