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

2. In "Hephaestus," what have we fallen into?
(a) A lake of lions.
(b) An era of error.
(c) A sea of grief.
(d) A cave of cavendish.

3. In "Surviving," what are we flooded by when tragedy threatens to end us?
(a) By what is easy.
(b) By what is felt.
(c) By what is hard.
(d) By what is unsaid.

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

5. In "At First," what do "we" want to find out?
(a) Who is our sibling.
(b) What really matters.
(c) Who made us a slaughterhouse.
(d) Who is our parent.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "There's No Power Like Home," what did the mask around our ear do?

2. In "Lighthouse," what is no human to us in the last line?

3. In "Cut," what is there no meek way to do?

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

5. In "Pan," how does the poet describe Pandora's box?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. In "Call Us," what does Gorman say about half of our bodies at times?

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

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