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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In "Fury & Faith," what do we owe to the fallen?
(a) To flee.
(b) To find happiness.
(c) To fight.
(d) To get the truth.

3. In "War: What, Is It Good?" what is the body?
(a) A friend.
(b) A walking chaos of meat & bones.
(c) A fine art.
(d) A suit.

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

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

6. In "_ _ _ _ _ [Gated]," how have we recalled what was not ours?
(a) Through cooking.
(b) Through flowers.
(c) Through poetry.
(d) Through finesse.

7. In "The Truth In One Nation," what may we never be granted again?
(a) Love.
(b) That same breath.
(c) Kinship.
(d) Freedom.

8. In "The Soldiers (or Plummer)" what happens to Plummer's company on 1/27/19?
(a) Everyone dies in an attack.
(b) Everyone is given paper to write letters on.
(c) Everyone goes home.
(d) It is placed under quarantine.

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

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

11. In "The Soldiers (or Plummer)" what is ever promised in this one-chance life?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Everything.
(c) Love.
(d) Jobs.

12. In "Libations," what do we listen to?
(a) The family.
(b) The neighbors.
(c) The friends.
(d) The past, the pain, the pandem.

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

14. In "_ _ _ _ _ [Gated]," why is it so hard for privileged groups to follow restrictions of place & personhood?
(a) Doing so means finding ways to eat more.
(b) Doing so means find ways to become even more powerful.
(c) Doing so means wearing the chains the power of the privileged have shackled on the rest of us.
(d) Doing so means making less money.

15. In "The Truth In One Nation," what sprang back with "the regular"?
(a) The deer.
(b) The cities.
(c) The violence.
(d) The peace.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "_ _ _ _ _ [Gated]," how long have Black people spent quarantined?

2. In "Report on Migration of Roes," what is one think respondents like about Panpax?

3. In "The Donohue Family Ledgers," who do the Donohues bury?

4. In "[Ours]," who has been cured?

5. In "Erasure," what are erasure poems?

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