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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In “Eternity, Songzhuang Art Village," the speakers sees a photograph of a picture of who, looking off to what once must have seemed the future?
(a) Dostoevsky.
(b) Prokofiev.
(c) Tchaikovsky.
(d) Tolstoy.

2. Who does the speaker in "Ghazal" say has been taught their name?
(a) Everyone.
(b) No one.
(c) Many.
(d) The chosen few.

3. In "Declaration," the people have reminded those in power of how they came to live in this nation, taken captive where?
(a) In the cotton fields.
(b) From their native lands.
(c) In the wild west.
(d) On the high seas.

4. In “Watershed,” In italics, the speaker who is floating over the city describes everything glowing and bands of what were being dispersed from a huge universal heartbeat?
(a) Light.
(b) Heat.
(c) Energy.
(d) Sound.

5. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” the man steps back and falls down. He then describes what?
(a) A time he slept outside a station and was woken up by someone urinating on him; he was then beaten with a metal rod.
(b) A time he used to care about others.
(c) His ill wife.
(d) A time he beat up a homeless man asleep at a train station.

Short Answer Questions

1. In “Watershed,” D’s husband frequently came home sick, and she needed what?

2. For what does the woman plea at the beginning of ”I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It”?

3. The speaker of "The Greatest Personal Privation" says they do not want those who are descendants of the people sold as property to know their history. Why?

4. In “Watershed,” who was employed at the factory and subsequently sold land to the factory?

5. Of what do the memories of this "Garden of Eden" remind the speaker?

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