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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 "Erasure," what does the pen do?
(a) Looks to erase.
(b) Looks to enhance and evoke.
(c) Looks to find the right word.
(d) Looks to be the best.

2. In "Fury & Faith," what is white supremacy as destructive as?
(a) Any disease.
(b) War.
(c) Fighting dogs.
(d) Court.

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

4. In "Roses," what are the "we" in the poem sick of?
(a) Dying.
(b) Finding friends.
(c) Finding enemies.
(d) Fighting.

5. In "The Truth In One Nation," what do we believe in some days?
(a) Nothing but belief itself.
(b) Anger.
(c) Love.
(d) Fear.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "America," what matters?

2. In "Letter From a Nurse," what does everyone have to do?

3. In "[Ours]," who does the writer write of handing right respect to?

4. In "Cecilia," what do we want to feel?

5. In "Displacement," what is our blood bracketed by?

Short Essay Questions

1. How many people did the 1918 Influenza pandemic kill?

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

3. What article is "DC Putsch" taken from?

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

5. In "War: What, Is It Good?" what did the British pioneer in WWI?

6. What two words does "Panpax" combine?

7. In "Fury & Faith," what does Gorman say we owe to ourselfs?

8. What is one thing Roy Underwood Plummer did in the poem "The Soldiers (or Plummer)"?

9. In "Displacement," what matters most?

10. In "Gated," what does it mean to be alone?

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