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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "The Soldiers (or Plummer)" where is the Flu spreading particularly badly?
(a) In Company C.
(b) In Company B.
(c) In Company D.
(d) In Company A.

2. In "The Truth In One Nation," what can keep you safe?
(a) Everything.
(b) Privilege.
(c) Money.
(d) Nothing.

3. In "Erasure," what does the pen do?
(a) Looks to be the best.
(b) Looks to enhance and evoke.
(c) Looks to erase.
(d) Looks to find the right word.

4. What is the scourge in "Cecilia"?
(a) To tell the church of the flood.
(b) The find peace.
(c) To find grief.
(d) To tell the death of Cecilia.

5. In "Report on Migration of Roes," what did people report wanting most in Pandem?
(a) Respect.
(b) Music.
(c) Jobs.
(d) People.

6. In "The Soldiers (or Plummer)" what does Plummer write about dying?
(a) It is blinding.
(b) It is freeing.
(c) It is needing.
(d) It is loving.

7. In "Displacement," what is a part of ourselves?
(a) Truth.
(b) Wit.
(c) Barbed and barbaric.
(d) Heavy.

8. In "Report on Migration of Roes," what is "panpax" a meshing of?
(a) Panwalla and paxripe.
(b) Panning and paxing.
(c) The Greek prefix -pan and the Latin word -pax, meaning peace.
(d) Pans and pots.

9. In "The Truth In One Nation," what do we believe in some days?
(a) Nothing but belief itself.
(b) Anger.
(c) Fear.
(d) Love.

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

11. In "The Truth In One Nation," what is a dying art?
(a) Living.
(b) Praying.
(c) Hating.
(d) Loving.

12. In "Letter From a Nurse," what can the writer not help but do?
(a) Hope.
(b) Eat.
(c) Win.
(d) Work.

13. In "War: What, Is It Good?" why is war like a whale?
(a) It is an animal.
(b) It is over soon.
(c) It is all-consuming.
(d) It has blubber.

14. In "The Soldiers (or Plummer)" what does Plummer say is "action"?
(a) Joining the weaponry of our hands.
(b) Winning.
(c) Writing.
(d) Loving.

15. In "_ _ _ _ _ [Gated]," what is being alone?
(a) A finder's fee.
(b) A price for some & a privilege for others.
(c) A wrong.
(d) A right.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "America," what does our country seldom count?

3. In "War: What, Is It Good?" what is the body?

4. In "Displacement," what is our blood bracketed by?

5. In "The Truth In One Nation," what sprang back with "the regular"?

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