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

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

3. In "Cordage, or Atonement," what does the word atone come from?
(a) The Spanish for One.
(b) The Greek for alone.
(c) The German for being.
(d) The Middle English meshing at and one.

4. In "Ship's Manifest," which of the following does Gorman compare the book to?
(a) A religious experience.
(b) A light.
(c) A sing.
(d) A message in a bottle.

5. In "Another Nautical," what do we forget, like the water?
(a) Workers.
(b) Friends.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Men.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "Fugue," what do we truly mean when we say goodbye?

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

4. In "Good Grief," what were we once barbed and brutal as?

5. In "Earth Eyes," what is clamped down?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Gorman say has happened to the people in "Lighthouse" even though they have never met?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. In "Aborescent II," what does Gorman say we are always scoping out with our bodies?

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