| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Belly to branch, the sapsucker drills the maple’s well, drumming the trunk, its red throat thrumming. | Belly to branch, the sapsucker drills the maple’s well, drumming the trunk, its red throat thrumming. | 100%
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| I hear its work before I see it, willing myself toward the cadence, scanning the tree. | I hear its work before I see it, willing myself toward the cadence, scanning the tree. | 100%
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| My father rattled me like that: behind a bedroom door, the loaded thrust of his threats hammering our walls with vibrato. | My father rattled me like that: behind a bedroom door, the loaded thrust of his threats hammering our walls with vibrato. | 100%
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| The sounds stop. It’s spooky—this shift to nothing—being completely narrowed, a finished thing. | The sounds stop. It’s spooky—this shift to nothing—being completely narrowed, a finished thing. | 100%
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| Worst was the ghost note, that muted tone that, like wind threshed suddenly against itself, obscured the sum of my mother. | Worst was the ghost note, that muted tone that, like wind threshed suddenly against itself, obscured the sum of my mother. | 75%
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| I could hear her, almost, in the fissure between fear and fight: shirtless, as she made a break for the hall, her damp hair twisted up in a towel now spilling rivulets, wet sheen of a wing erupting into flight. | I could hear her, almost, in the fissure between fear and fight: shirtless, as she made a break for the hall, her damp hair twisted up in a towel now spilling rivulets, wet sheen of a wing erupting into flight. | 50%
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