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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 "Künstlerroman," what is one tragic scene the speaker revisits?
(a) His son's funeral.
(b) A fire in his old apartment.
(c) A lynching.
(d) A car accident.

2. In "Ars Poetica as the Maker," what does the speaker gather fistfuls of?
(a) Heather.
(b) Leaves.
(c) Ash.
(d) Paints.

3. In "Tell Me Something Good," what does the speaker want his younger self to know?
(a) You are worthless.
(b) You can be nothing and still breathing.
(c) You are charming.
(d) You have a future abroad.

4. In "Künstlerroman," what is the street the speaker's car crashed on?
(a) Main Road.
(b) Risley Road.
(c) Helsom Road.
(d) Firefly Road.

5. In "Not Even," what does the speaker say he used to be?
(a) A journal.
(b) An anomaly.
(c) A drink.
(d) A fag.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "Künstlerroman," what does the speaker do with the movie once it ends?

3. In "Reasons for Staying," by what light does the speaker read his books?

4. In "Reasons for Staying," mercy is small, but what is smaller?

5. What is each wave in "Toy Boat" like?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does the speaker see himself in "Tell Me Something Good"?

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

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

4. What does the speaker eventually realize about himself and the man in the movie in "Künstlerroman"?

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

6. What is the poem "Toy Boat" about?

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

8. Where does the main in the movie keep returning to in "Künstlerroman"?

9. What does the speaker do with the movie in "Künstlerroman"?

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

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