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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. What does Plummer say whites do not love in "The Soldiers (or Plummer)"?

2. In "Libations," what do we remember, rename, resist, repair, and rouse?

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

4. In "Displacement," what is a part of ourselves?

5. In "Displacement," what were we distempered as that wretched summer?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In Part IV, what are "Roes"?

6. In "Displacement," what differs?

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

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

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

10. In Part IV, what is "Pandem" a metaphor for?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Gorman use water as a symbol and a sign throughout this collection? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

What political themes and topics does Gorman explore throughout this collection, and how does she explore them? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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