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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 the speaker wear in "Skinny Dipping"?
(a) His father's hat.
(b) His mother's ring.
(c) His old shoes.
(d) His best shirt.

2. In "Beautiful Short Loser," what does the speaker do in the streets?
(a) Eat.
(b) Shoots someone.
(c) Play air guitar.
(d) Sleep.

3. In "Dear Peter," what does the man in the back of Walgreens once say to the speaker?
(a) Love is a shell game.
(b) I can make you look like something true.
(c) Find me that money.
(d) Come with me.

4. In "Dear T," what does T know as a boy?
(a) We will only live once this time.
(b) Things are not as bad as they seem.
(c) He will be a good writer someday.
(d) It is all a dream.

5. In "The Bull," where does the bull appear?
(a) The dog house.
(b) The lake.
(c) The backyard.
(d) The race track.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "You Guys," what does the speaker apologize for "only" being useful in?

2. In "American Legend," why does the speaker say he crashed the car?

3. In "You Guys," what does the speaker swear to do at the end of the poem?

4. In "Snow Theory," what does the speaker say we will always have?

5. In "You Guys," what does the speaker say it is hard to tell from breathing?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "You Guys," what has happened to the rabbits?

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

3. In "The Last Dinosaur," what does the speaker examine?

4. In "Rise and Shine," how does the speaker betray his own mother?

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

6. In "Dear Sara," what does Sara ask the speaker about?

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

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

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

10. In "Skinny Dipping," what does the speaker yearn for?

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