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

2. In "Essex I," what was the Essex?
(a) A Lord.
(b) A book.
(c) An American whaling ship.
(d) A type of tree.

3. In "Hephaestus," what is "that clear plunge"?
(a) The beginning of what we ought to become.
(b) A relief.
(c) A balm.
(d) A friend.

4. In "Every Day We Are Learning," what can we not possess without practicing it?
(a) Fear.
(b) Hope.
(c) Love.
(d) Hate.

5. In "& So," how does grief leave when it goes?
(a) With a bang.
(b) With sadness.
(c) With joy.
(d) Softly.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "Cut," what is there no simple way to do?

3. In "Good Grief," what is the origin of the word trauma?

4. In "Back to the Past," what will bleed us at times?

5. In "Compass," what is there no better compass than?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Gorman say we truly mean by "goodbye" in the poem "Fugue"?

2. What does Gorman say is the origin of the word "trauma" in "Good Grief"?

3. What does Gorman say would be a blessing for our children in the poem "What We Did in the Time Being"?

4. In "Lucent," what does Gorman say are the brightest parts of us?

5. What is "School's Out" about?

6. What will sometimes bleed with us in the poem "Back to the Past"?

7. In "Call Us," what does Gorman say about half of our bodies at times?

8. In "Vale of the Shadow of Death," what did the Chinese Exclusion Act do?

9. In "Pan," what does "Pandora" mean?

10. In "Cordage, or Atonement," what words does Gorman use two different spellings of and play with, though they are pronounced the same?

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