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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. In "Amazon History of a Former Nail Salon Worker," what are some purchases that reveal the worker's pain?
(a) Illegal drug purchases.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) Band-aids.
(d) Heating pads, painkilling pills, and painkilling pads.

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

3. In "No One Knows the Way to Heaven," what does the speaker think might be temporary?
(a) Time.
(b) Extinction.
(c) Bliss.
(d) Heaven.

4. In "Nothing," what does the speaker brush from Peter's beard?
(a) Fuzz.
(b) Crumbs.
(c) Ice.
(d) Chocolate.

5. In "Künstlerroman," when does the speaker dance with his mother?
(a) During a wedding.
(b) During her second wedding.
(c) During his own graduation.
(d) During a huge snowstorm.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Reasons for Staying," what keeps burning in California?

2. In "Not Even," what does the speaker say is necessary to "make it out of here"?

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

4. In "No One Knows the Way to Heaven," what happens when two men walk holding hands into a bar?

5. In "Not Even," where does the speaker get off of the Amtrak train?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Nothing," what does the speaker wonder about himself and Peter?

2. In "Not Even," what does a young woman tell the speaker that the speaker finds offensive?

3. In "Nothing," what story about Peter's grandmother does the speaker recount?

4. In "Amazon History of a Former Nail Salon Worker," what does the reader learn about the speaker's mother?

5. What particular item in "Amazon History of a Former Nail Salon Worker" is ominous and morbid?

6. In "Tell Me Something Good," what does the speaker want to tell his younger self?

7. What does the speaker make a list of in "Reasons for Staying"?

8. What does the speaker imply but not directly state in "Tell Me Something Good"?

9. Where does the speaker in "The Punctum" visit?

10. In "Scavengers," who is the speaker with and in what context?

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