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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Not Even," what does the speaker say the word for weakness is in his language?
(a) Amore.
(b) Yeu.
(c) Fani.
(d) Lin.

2. In "Nothing," whose recipe is the bread recipe?
(a) Peter's grandmother's.
(b) The speaker's mother's.
(c) The speaker's.
(d) The neighbor's.

3. In "Not Even," what does napalm have?
(a) A friend.
(b) A foe.
(c) A legacy.
(d) A "rainbow afterglow."

4. In "No One Knows the Way to Heaven," what happens when two men walk holding hands into a bar?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The joke is on them.
(c) Time stops.
(d) The room clears.

5. In "Künstlerroman," where are some of the places the man in the movie visits?
(a) Empty fields.
(b) Schools.
(c) Movie sets.
(d) Fancy settings like mansions.

6. In "Not Even," what is the word for love in the speaker's language?
(a) Fani.
(b) Yeu.
(c) Amore.
(d) Lin.

7. In "Scavengers," what does the speaker compare himself and his lover to?
(a) Poems.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Songs.
(d) Trout on the shore.

8. In "Not Even," what does the speaker suggest "made" his people instead of "the crash"?
(a) The moon.
(b) The sea.
(c) The debris.
(d) The sun.

9. In "Künstlerroman," what is the street the speaker's car crashed on?
(a) Helsom Road.
(b) Main Road.
(c) Risley Road.
(d) Firefly Road.

10. In "Ars Poetica as the Maker," what book of the Bible does Vuong quote from?
(a) Genesis.
(b) Aftermath.
(c) Revelations.
(d) Corinthians.

11. In "Not Even," what does the speaker remember seeing from an Amtrak train in Iowa?
(a) An explosion.
(b) A man standing still in a field.
(c) A rainbow.
(d) A cow.

12. Why does the speaker say he kept dancing even though the song had finished in "Not Even"?
(a) It felt like love.
(b) It felt painful.
(c) It freed him.
(d) It made him love his partner.

13. Where does the speaker say he will not dance alone in "Not Even"?
(a) The homestead.
(b) The rally.
(c) The club.
(d) The municipal graveyard at midnight.

14. In "Not Even," what does the speaker say being real does?
(a) Costs too much.
(b) Is rare.
(c) Makes for unhappiness.
(d) Is not really plausible.

15. In "Not Even," what does the speaker want to say to his mother as her body bag is zipped?
(a) Get out of there.
(b) Finally.
(c) Godspeed.
(d) You won.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Amazon History of a Former Nail Salon Worker," what is the first indication that the worker is undergoing cancer treatment?

2. In "Reasons for Staying," what is the speaker's "last address"?

3. In "Reasons for Staying," what does a blade of brown rye multiplied by thousands create?

4. In "Not Even," what does the woman on the train bring to the speaker?

5. In "Reasons for Staying," what sounds "like footsteps" when you play it?

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