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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 "Earth Eyes," what is clamped down?
(a) Our conscience.
(b) Our hair.
(c) Our jaw.
(d) Our nails.

2. In "Compass," what is the year the size of?
(a) A bone.
(b) A sea.
(c) A whale.
(d) A watch.

3. In "The Shallows," how do we stand?
(a) Moving.
(b) Suspiciously.
(c) Raucously.
(d) Stone-still.

4. In "& So," what it is easy to do?
(a) Flee.
(b) Harp.
(c) Heal.
(d) Find.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. In "There's No Power Like Home," what were we sick of?

5. In "Cordage, or Atonement," what does the word atone come from?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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