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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "At First," what did we not expect when we asked how others were faring?
(a) A song.
(b) A farm.
(c) A job.
(d) An honest or full response.

2. In "At First," what are our sentences as stilted as?
(a) A telegram.
(b) A walk.
(c) A frog.
(d) A phone.

3. What is the name of the first major section in Part I?
(a) Dream.
(b) Wrong.
(c) Right.
(d) Requiem.

4. In "Fugue," what are handshakes and hugs like?
(a) Friends.
(b) Faults.
(c) Gifts.
(d) Lovers.

5. What does the last line of "Call Us" implore the reader to do?
(a) Call us what we need.
(b) Call us what we sing.
(c) Call us what we know.
(d) Call us what we carry.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Surviving," what might not we be fully sure of?

2. In "Back to the Past," what is the closest we get to time travel?

3. In "Compass," what is there no better compass than?

4. In "Back to the Past," what will bleed us at times?

5. In "Lighthouse," what have we lost sight of even though we have never met?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Gorman play with the idea of homesickness in the poem "There's No Power Like Home"?

2. How does Gorman describe the entirety of what we've lost in "The Shallows"?

3. In "Lucent," what do our shadows play tricks on?

4. What piece of pop culture does the title "Who We Gonna Call" refer to?

5. In "Vale of the Shadow of Death," what did the Chinese Exclusion Act do?

6. What is life if it is not what is promised in "Life"?

7. What does Gorman say is the origin of the word "trauma" in "Good Grief"?

8. In "Pan," what does "Pandora" mean?

9. What does Gorman say we are learning in "Every Day We Are Learning"?

10. In "Cordage, or Atonement," what words does Gorman use two different spellings of and play with, though they are pronounced the same?

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