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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 "War: What, Is It Good?" what is the body?
(a) A walking chaos of meat & bones.
(b) A friend.
(c) A fine art.
(d) A suit.

2. In "Erasure," what are erasure poems?
(a) Poems that have no meaning.
(b) Poems with the pieces plucked out.
(c) Poems that have been written with a pencil eraser.
(d) Poems that no longer exist.

3. In "The Soldiers (or Plummer)" what does Plummer say is "action"?
(a) Loving.
(b) Writing.
(c) Joining the weaponry of our hands.
(d) Winning.

4. In "War: What, Is It Good?" what was the First World War once called?
(a) Great.
(b) Fine.
(c) Winnable.
(d) Flimsy.

5. In "Libations," what do we remember, rename, resist, repair, and rouse?
(a) Our meals.
(b) Our trees.
(c) Our world.
(d) Ourselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year was the material in "DC Putsch" written?

2. In "Fury & Faith," what does our prevailing depend upon?

3. In "Erasure," why do we erase?

4. In "War: What, Is It Good?" what does it mean to love?

5. In "War: What, Is It Good?" what is there no such thing as?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Gated," what does it mean to be haunted?

2. Who wrote the stanza in "The Letters"?

3. In "Gated," what is one perspective on social distance?

4. In "Displacement," what differs?

5. What time period does the poem "[Ours]" come from?

6. What did the Donohue family own in the poems centering on them?

7. What time period does "Letter From a Nurse" come from?

8. In "Displacement," what matters most?

9. What is "Panpax" supposed to be in reality?

10. In "Fury & Faith," what are as destructive as any disease?

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