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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. What does winning look like to the speaker at the end of "Dear Peter"?
(a) His being able to cook.
(b) His being able to clean.
(c) His getting a new job.
(d) His fingers shaking.

2. In "Beautiful Short Loser," what is nobody free without first doing?
(a) Winning.
(b) Hearing someone else for the first time.
(c) Breaking open.
(d) Eating.

3. In "American Legend," who is the passenger in the car?
(a) The speaker.
(b) The mother.
(c) The father.
(d) The friend.

4. In "Snow Theory," when was the last time the speaker has killed anything?
(a) 2017.
(b) 2006.
(c) 2010.
(d) 2000.

5. In "Dear Sara," what is the shade of Sara's shoes?
(a) Sand.
(b) Bruise.
(c) Dirty paper.
(d) Night.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Beautiful Short Loser, what does the speaker tell the police officer who pulls him over he does not believe in?

2. In "Rise and Shine," what does the speaker draw in purple marker?

3. In "Beautiful Short Loser," who does the speaker imagine sometimes when he cannot sleep?

4. In "Dear Peter," what book does the speaker find in the reading room?

5. What was no one at the bridge, according to the speaker, in "Skinny Dipping"?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Dear Sara," what does Vuong use as a metaphor for words?

2. In "Dear T," what does the speaker hope that writing can do, even though he knows this is impossible?

3. In "Dear Peter," where is the speaker?

4. In "American Legend," what does the speaker suspect about himself and his motivations during the car crash?

5. In "American Legend," how does the speaker feel about his father right as the crash is happening?

6. What do you think Vuong means in "The Bull" when he says that as a boy, he is the "murderer of his own childhood"?

7. In "Waterline," what does the speaker imagine?

8. In "The Last Prom Queen in Antarctica," what does the speaker think he learns from the crying boy?

9. In "Snow Theory," what does the snow symbolize?

10. In "Old Glory," what are some concepts the speaker is criticizing?

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