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

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

3. In "War: What, Is It Good?" what is rationed in battle?
(a) Hope.
(b) Love.
(c) Everything.
(d) Nothing.

4. In "Displacement," what are inside us?
(a) Two birds.
(b) Two trees.
(c) Two wolves.
(d) Two hearts.

5. 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.

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

7. In "Libations," what do we remember, rename, resist, repair, and rouse?
(a) Ourselves.
(b) Our trees.
(c) Our world.
(d) Our meals.

8. Who wrote parts of "[Ours]"?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) George Washington.
(c) Alexander Hamilton.
(d) John Adams.

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

10. In "Displacement," what are we taught differs in physics?
(a) Right and wrong.
(b) Rivers and seas.
(c) Speed and weight.
(d) Displacement and distance.

11. In "Cecilia," what was the sick never?
(a) One someone.
(b) Contagious.
(c) Definable.
(d) True.

12. In "The Truth In One Nation," what are we dazed by?
(a) Our alacrity.
(b) The flare of our new-made selves.
(c) Our privilege.
(d) Our faith.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Soldiers (or Plummer)" why does Plummer say they might stay a while in the war?

2. In "The Soldiers (or Plummer)" what does Plummer say death is not like?

3. In "Libations," what do we listen to?

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

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

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