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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 say is "action"?
(a) Loving.
(b) Winning.
(c) Writing.
(d) Joining the weaponry of our hands.

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

3. In "War: What, Is It Good?" what does it mean to love?
(a) It may just be the fight of our lives.
(b) It may be impossible.
(c) It may be helpful.
(d) It may be wrong.

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

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

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

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

8. In "The Truth In One Nation," what is a luxury?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Disbelief.
(c) Being alone.
(d) Privilege.

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

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

11. In "War: What, Is It Good?" what does the poet say about writing our stories?
(a) It is wrong.
(b) It needs a finders' fee.
(c) It is an essential service.
(d) It is a friendship.

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

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

14. In "The Soldiers (or Plummer)" why does Plummer ask if they have really won the war at all?
(a) Because so many lives are ending from Flu.
(b) Because he still can not get a good job.
(c) Because his lover is dead.
(d) Because the weather is so bad.

15. In "Roses," what are the "we" in the poem sick of?
(a) Finding enemies.
(b) Finding friends.
(c) Dying.
(d) Fighting.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Truth In One Nation," what are we dazed by?

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

3. In "The Truth In One Nation," what can keep you safe?

4. In "The Truth In One Nation," what did we think our country would do?

5. In "Displacement," what were we distempered as that wretched summer?

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