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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "America," what does it mean to be divided as a nation?
(a) To be loved.
(b) To be unfairly drawn.
(c) To be devastated.
(d) To be hated.

2. In "The Soldiers (or Plummer)" what does Plummer want to make his home?
(a) Worth loving.
(b) Worth writing about.
(c) Worth fighting for.
(d) Worth living in.

3. In "Fury & Faith," what does our prevailing depend upon?
(a) Kinship.
(b) Beauty.
(c) All the change that is possible.
(d) Truth.

4. In "Displacement," what are we traveling further than?
(a) Further than we lie.
(b) Further than we strive.
(c) Further than we shift.
(d) Further than we share.

5. In "The Soldiers (or Plummer)" what does Plummer say death is not like?
(a) A friend.
(b) A winter.
(c) A lover.
(d) A brief dream.

6. In "Selma Epp," how old was Daniel?
(a) 5.
(b) 23.
(c) 19.
(d) 2.

7. In "Report on Migration of Roes," how are grief and glass similar?
(a) They can both be valuable.
(b) They can both be mistaken.
(c) They can both be dangerous.
(d) They can both be mirrors and windows.

8. In "War: What, Is It Good?" what was the First World War once called?
(a) Flimsy.
(b) Winnable.
(c) Great.
(d) Fine.

9. In "Report on Migration of Roes," what did Panpax City Commissioners do?
(a) Helped friends.
(b) Conducted a series of interviews.
(c) Made a lot of enemies.
(d) Paid bus drivers.

10. In "Report on Migration of Roes," what is one think respondents like about Panpax?
(a) Rain.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Trees.
(d) Music.

11. In "Selma Epp," who did the strongest carry?
(a) God.
(b) Everyone.
(c) No one.
(d) The Romans.

12. In "War: What, Is It Good?" which battles are the hardest to win?
(a) The small ones.
(b) The lucky ones.
(c) The invisible ones.
(d) The big ones.

13. In "[Ours]," who has been cured?
(a) Alexander.
(b) Henry.
(c) Winston.
(d) Hume.

14. In "The Truth In One Nation," what did we think our country would do?
(a) Both shout, and get out.
(b) Both win, and come in.
(c) Both burn, and learn.
(d) Both rise, and surmise.

15. In "Fury & Faith," what is white supremacy as destructive as?
(a) Court.
(b) Any disease.
(c) Fighting dogs.
(d) War.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Soldiers (or Plummer)" why does Plummer ask if they have really won the war at all?

2. In "War: What, Is It Good?" why is war like a whale?

3. In "Roses," what are the "we" in the poem sick of?

4. In "Cecilia," what was the sick never?

5. In "America," what bleeds from our flag?

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