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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 45 - 87).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "School's Out," what is there power in?
(a) Being right.
(b) Being wrong.
(c) Being robbed and still choosing to dance.
(d) Being smart.

2. In "Surviving," what are we flooded by when tragedy threatens to end us?
(a) By what is unsaid.
(b) By what is hard.
(c) By what is easy.
(d) By what is felt.

3. In "At First," what did we not expect when we asked how others were faring?
(a) A job.
(b) A farm.
(c) A song.
(d) An honest or full response.

4. In "Another Nautical," what are words like, in a similar way to water?
(a) A type of finding.
(b) A type of dying.
(c) A type of loving.
(d) A type of washing.

5. In "Cut," what is there no meek way to do?
(a) Buy things.
(b) Eat.
(c) Mend.
(d) Fight.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the poet mention by name in "Pre-Memory?"

2. In "Pan," what does pandemonium mean?

3. In "At First," what are our sentences as stilted as?

4. In "Earth Eyes," what does the poet ask generations of the past order to be?

5. In "Cordage, or Atonement," what does the word atone come from?

(see the answer key)

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