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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In "The Soldiers (or Plummer)" what does Plummer want to make his home?
2. In "The Truth In One Nation," what is a dying art?
3. In "Fury & Faith," what is white supremacy as destructive as?
4. In "The Soldiers (or Plummer)" what does Plummer say death is not like?
5. In "Displacement," what are we taught differs in physics?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did the Donohue family own in the poems centering on them?
2. What time period does "Letter From a Nurse" come from?
3. In "Fury & Faith," what are as destructive as any disease?
4. In "Fury & Faith," what does Gorman say we owe to ourselfs?
5. What is "Panpax" supposed to be in reality?
6. What is one thing Roy Underwood Plummer did in the poem "The Soldiers (or Plummer)"?
7. What two words does "Panpax" combine?
8. What article is "DC Putsch" taken from?
9. How many people did the 1918 Influenza pandemic kill?
10. In Part IV, what are "Roes"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How and when does Gorman reference pop culture throughout this collection, and to what effect on the reader? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 2
What kind of imagery and themes does Gorman build around the idea of ships and shipwrecks throughout the collection? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 3
How and why do you think Gorman uses images on the page, as in the shape of a poem mimicking its subject? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
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