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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Notes and Acknowledgments.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In “Eternity, Songzhuang Art Village," the speaker describes pulling what out of art racks, as if they are spirits who are no longer in their bodies?
(a) Scrolls.
(b) Frames.
(c) Canvases.
(d) Prints.

2. In “New Road Station,” what is history?
(a) Asleep in a tomb or in a bomb.
(b) The voice on the radio.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) A bus that is about to take off.

3. Has the narrator of "The Angels" had other angel encounters?
(a) No, never.
(b) Yes, sometimes.
(c) Yes, regularly.
(d) Yes, rarely.

4. In “Eternity, Mutianyu, Great Wall," the speaker describes the grabbing of the wall by whom?
(a) A tourist who has tripped.
(b) A soldier.
(c) A young child.
(d) An elderly woman.

5. "Dusk" begins with the speaker comparing life with her self-centered daughter to what?
(a) Torture.
(b) Work.
(c) Life lessons.
(d) War.

Short Answer Questions

1. “I Will Tell You the Truth about This, I Will Tell You All” contains much of the original what?

2. How does the poem "Unwritten" begin?

3. What will happen to those, including women and children, who do not follow the orders to leave camp in “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It”?

4. In "Annunciation," the speaker wants to experience what is real – “the cold, the pitiless, the bleak,” nature, or her son, who is forever turned where?

5. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” what does the audience begin to sense?

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