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

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

3. In "& So," what it is harder to do?
(a) Hope.
(b) Find.
(c) Heal.
(d) Flee.

4. In "Hephaestus," what is "that clear plunge"?
(a) A friend.
(b) A balm.
(c) The beginning of what we ought to become.
(d) A relief.

5. In "Pre-Memory," how does every memory start?
(a) By finding a tree.
(b) By finding a carwash.
(c) By poking a scar until it speaks.
(d) By knowing thyself.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "School's Out," what does the announcement about school seem like?

3. In "At First," what did we become paid professionals of?

4. In "Ship's Manifest," which of the following does Gorman compare the book to?

5. In "At First," what are our sentences as stilted as?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does Gorman say we are learning in "Every Day We Are Learning"?

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

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

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

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

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