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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 "Nothing," what does the speaker brush from Peter's beard?
(a) Ice.
(b) Fuzz.
(c) Chocolate.
(d) Crumbs.
2. In "Ars Poetica as the Maker," what does the speaker try to stretch the clay slab into?
(a) Reason.
(b) Trees.
(c) Heather.
(d) Five blades of light.
3. In "No One Knows the Way to Heaven," where did Evan shoot himself?
(a) His sister's chicken coop.
(b) The school.
(c) His bedroom.
(d) The mall.
4. In "Nothing," what does the speaker imagine as rising from the bread?
(a) Prayers.
(b) Spells.
(c) Ghosts.
(d) Poems.
5. In "Amazon History of a Former Nail Salon Worker," what is the first indication that the worker is undergoing cancer treatment?
(a) "Chemo-glam cotton headscarf."
(b) Chemo anti-nausea medication.
(c) A book about chemo.
(d) Chemo injection syringes.
Short Answer Questions
1. In "Reasons for Staying," what sounds "like footsteps" when you play it?
2. In "Toy Boat," what are the sparrows "pierced by"?
3. What is each wave in "Toy Boat" like?
4. In "Amazon History of a Former Nail Salon Worker," what is one of the worker's hobbies judging from the purchase history?
5. Why does the speaker say he kept dancing even though the song had finished in "Not Even"?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the speaker eventually realize about himself and the man in the movie in "Künstlerroman"?
2. In "Nothing," what story about Peter's grandmother does the speaker recount?
3. Where does the speaker see himself in "Tell Me Something Good"?
4. In "Scavengers," what kind of imagery does the speaker use?
5. In "Scavengers," who is the speaker with and in what context?
6. What does the speaker make a list of in "Reasons for Staying"?
7. In "Not Even," what does a young woman tell the speaker that the speaker finds offensive?
8. Who does the speaker wish to communicate with in "No One Knows the Way to Heaven"?
9. What items point to the suffering of the speaker's mother in "Amazon History of a Former Nail Salon Worker"?
10. In "Amazon History of a Former Nail Salon Worker," what does the reader learn about the speaker's mother?
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