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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "America,"what can we make if not a difference"?
(a) A hat.
(b) A fight.
(c) A sound.
(d) A fire.

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

3. In "War: What, Is It Good?" what did the British pioneer during WWI?
(a) Finding friends abroad.
(b) Cooking with gas.
(c) Hats.
(d) Cable-cutting underwater.

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

5. Who wrote "The Letters"?
(a) Lin-Manuel Miranda.
(b) Rhianna.
(c) Herman Melville.
(d) Tracy K. Smith.

6. In "War: What, Is It Good?" what do both viruses and wars do?
(a) Enlighten us.
(b) Find us fallible.
(c) Separate us.
(d) Find us loving.

7. In "The Truth In One Nation," what do we say sometimes in the thick of night?
(a) Our mantra.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Our name.
(d) Our prayer.

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

9. Whose journals does "The Soldiers (or Plummer)" draw from?
(a) Henry Plummer's.
(b) Roy Underwood Plummer's.
(c) Mike Plummer's.
(d) Andy Plummer's.

10. In "_ _ _ _ _ [Gated]," what did we probably think was about us?
(a) The peace.
(b) The pandemic.
(c) The war.
(d) This poem.

11. In "The Donohue Family Ledgers," what can our common era tell?
(a) When a person wins.
(b) When a person loses.
(c) What a person does.
(d) Who a person was.

12. In "The Donohue Family Ledgers," who do the Donohues bury?
(a) The priests.
(b) People they knew, and strangers.
(c) No one.
(d) The nuns.

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

14. In "Displacement," what were we distempered as that wretched summer?
(a) Bunnies.
(b) Cats.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Hens.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Selma Epp," how old was Daniel?

2. In "_ _ _ _ _ [Gated]," how have we recalled what was not ours?

3. In "Cecilia," what do we want to feel?

4. In "Libations," what do we remember, rename, resist, repair, and rouse?

5. In "War: What, Is It Good?" what is there no such thing as?

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