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

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

3. In "Surviving," what might not we be fully sure of?
(a) All that we may be.
(b) All that we wanted to be.
(c) All that we can not be.
(d) All that we are.

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

5. In "Fugue," how do we fall into the news?
(a) With longing.
(b) With angst.
(c) With happiness.
(d) Head-first, dread-first.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Cordage, or Atonement," what are we not?

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

3. In "Pan," what does pandemic mean?

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

5. In "Pre-Memory," how does every memory start?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does Gorman say we truly mean by "goodbye" in the poem "Fugue"?

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

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

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