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

2. In "Pan," how does the poet describe Pandora's box?
(a) As a movie.
(b) As a jar left ajar.
(c) As a misnomer.
(d) As a necessity.

3. In "Alarum," how does the poet describe us?
(a) As the future.
(b) As the present.
(c) As the past.
(d) As the loud toll on this planet.

4. In "Lucent," what does lumen mean?
(a) A wire.
(b) The cavity of an organ and a unit of luminous flux.
(c) A friend.
(d) A sea.

5. In "Back to the Past," what will bleed us at times?
(a) Our blessings.
(b) Our jobs.
(c) Our soil.
(d) Our friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Memorial," what do we do when we tell a story?

2. In "& So," what it is harder to do?

3. In "School's Out," what is there power in?

4. In "Aborescent I" what does Gorman say is at the very root of ourselves?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Gorman say would be a blessing for our children in the poem "What We Did in the Time Being"?

3. In "& So," how does Gorman describe grief?

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

5. In "Erasure," what are "erasure poems"?

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

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

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

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

10. In "Memorial," what does Gorman say we are living when we tell a story?

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