Time Is a Mother Test | Final Test - Easy

Ocean Vuong
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Time Is a Mother Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Reasons for Staying," what is the only thing that rhymes with music?
(a) Winter.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Summer.
(d) Music.

2. In "Not Even," what does the woman on the train bring to the speaker?
(a) Chocolate.
(b) A scarf.
(c) Tea.
(d) A sandwich.

3. In "Not Even," what does the speaker decide he wants from now on at the end of the poem?
(a) Fame.
(b) Joy.
(c) Stillness.
(d) Heartache.

4. In "Künstlerroman," what are the lover's clothes returned to them like?
(a) Crumpled laws.
(b) Glory.
(c) Rags.
(d) Shame.

5. In "The Punctum," how does the speaker describe "the skill lodged in the gravedigger's hands"?
(a) As "the innocents."
(b) As "timeless."
(c) As often the same one "lodged behind your face."
(d) As "the original sin."

6. In "Amazon History of a Former Nail Salon Worker," what sweet snack does the worker buy?
(a) M&Ms.
(b) Sweet dumplings.
(c) Gummi bears.
(d) Little Debbie cakes.

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

8. In "Reasons for Staying," what does a blade of brown rye multiplied by thousands create?
(a) Miracles.
(b) A piece of bread.
(c) A purple field.
(d) Hunger.

9. In "Not Even," what does the speaker "throw himself" into?
(a) Pain.
(b) Helplessness.
(c) His job.
(d) Gravity.

10. In "Nothing," what do the speaker and his partner do together?
(a) Sing.
(b) Dance.
(c) Shovel snow.
(d) Go to church.

11. In "Nothing," what does Peter's grandmother survive?
(a) The Korean War.
(b) The Vietnam War.
(c) The Holocaust.
(d) The Dustbowl.

12. 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) Godspeed.
(c) You won.
(d) Finally.

13. 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 cow.
(d) A rainbow.

14. In "Reasons for Staying," what does the speaker's mother apply before heading to chemo?
(a) Blush.
(b) A scarf.
(c) A coat.
(d) Lipstick.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Nothing," what does the speaker brush from Peter's beard?

2. In "Ars Poetica as the Maker," what book of the Bible does Vuong quote from?

3. In "Not Even," what does the speaker say a morgue can also be?

4. In "Tell Me Something Good," where will the speaker be if he opens his eyes?

5. In "Künstlerroman," what birthday does the speaker revisit?

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