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

2. In "Lighthouse," what is no human to us in the last line?
(a) A friend.
(b) A winner.
(c) A stranger.
(d) A lover.

3. In "Aborescent I" what does Gorman say is at the very root of ourselves?
(a) What is wrong.
(b) What is right.
(c) What goes unsaid.
(d) What goes unseen.

4. In "Cordage, or Atonement," what should we take back, if only for this newborn day?
(a) Our friends.
(b) Our lovers.
(c) Our jobs.
(d) Our lives.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Shallows," what does Gorman implore people to do after grieving?

2. In "Pre-Memory," what is trauma like?

3. In "Alarum," what does the poet say we are writing as?

4. What is the name of the first major section in Part I?

5. In "When," how are we like our joy?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In "Essex I," what famous piece of literature does Gorman evoke?

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

5. What is harder than harping in "& So"?

6. What does Gorman say we truly mean by "goodbye" in the poem "Fugue"?

7. In "Compass," when does Gorman say we are only legible?

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

9. What is "School's Out" about?

10. In "Captive," what is "stereotypic behavior" in animals?

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