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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 unseen.
(c) What goes unsaid.
(d) What is wrong.

2. In "Cut," what is there no simple way to do?
(a) Grieve.
(b) Eat.
(c) Hurt.
(d) Heal.

3. In "Essex I," what were whales killed for?
(a) Tongues.
(b) Blubber.
(c) Skin.
(d) Brains.

4. In "Back to the Past," what is the closest we get to time travel?
(a) Our lovers dying.
(b) Our friends returning.
(c) Photos.
(d) Our fears softening.

5. In "Lucent," what are we stripped down like?
(a) A wintered tree.
(b) A bear.
(c) A fable.
(d) A lightbulb.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Compass," what is the year the size of?

2. What is behind us in "Ship's Manifest"?

3. In "Essex I," what was the Essex?

4. In "Cordage, or Atonement," what should we take back, if only for this newborn day?

5. In "Aborescent I," what would we give up for "this one"?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Alarum," what is the slash called in math?

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

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

4. What does Gorman say is the origin of the word "trauma" in "Good Grief"?

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

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

7. In "Cut," what does Gorman say we just need a place for some days?

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

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

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

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