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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 "Cut," what is there no meek way to do?
(a) Fight.
(b) Mend.
(c) Eat.
(d) Buy things.

2. In "Good Grief," what were we once barbed and brutal as?
(a) Friends.
(b) Blades.
(c) Hind quarters.
(d) Books.

3. In "Essex I," what were whales killed for?
(a) Brains.
(b) Blubber.
(c) Skin.
(d) Tongues.

4. In "Memorial," what do we do when we tell a story?
(a) Hearing ourselves.
(b) Finding community.
(c) Honoring a relative.
(d) Living memory.

5. In "School's Out," what is there power in?
(a) Being right.
(b) Being robbed and still choosing to dance.
(c) Being smart.
(d) Being wrong.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Another Nautical," what do we forget, like the water?

2. In "Essex I," what book did the tragedy involving the Essex inspire?

3. Who does the poet mention by name in "Pre-Memory?"

4. In "At First," how do we find the rhetoric of reunion?

5. In "Ship's Manifest," what are we waiting for?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What will sometimes bleed with us in the poem "Back to the Past"?

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

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

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

6. What worldwide event does "Fugue" revolve around?

7. In "Hephaestus," what are we re-rasied among, according to Gorman?

8. In "Lucent," what does Gorman say are the brightest parts of us?

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

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

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