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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In “Eternity, Songzhuang Art Village," seeing a photograph of her mother, the speaker reminds herself she once wrote what?
(a) About whether or not we are able to save ourselves or others.
(b) About whether or not we can truly love others.
(c) About whether or not we can stop aging.
(d) About whether or not we can live long, happy lives.

2. In “New Road Station,” history is compared to a mother doing what?
(a) Shooing away the chickens.
(b) Corralling her children.
(c) Washing laundry.
(d) Calling her family to dinner.

3. In "Annunciation," the speaker is ashamed of what?
(a) Her easy life.
(b) The solitude in her life.
(c) The busy world around her.
(d) The modernization of the world around her.

4. In “Watershed,” who is taking this case and filed a lawsuit?
(a) D.
(b) R.
(c) M.
(d) J.

5. In “Watershed,” the speaker finishes in italics saying that, for him, God is what?
(a) Heat.
(b) Warm water.
(c) Bands of energy.
(d) Light.

6. 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) Tolstoy.
(b) Prokofiev.
(c) Tchaikovsky.
(d) Dostoevsky.

7. In "Beatific," the speaker watches a bow-legged man in black sweatpants slowly do what?
(a) Cross the street.
(b) Walk to his car.
(c) Dance and sing.
(d) Play shuffleboard.

8. In “Watershed,” the speaker in italics feels him or herself being pulled up through what?
(a) The center of the earth.
(b) The ground.
(c) The attic.
(d) The many floors of the hospital up to the sky.

9. In “Watershed,” soon after the sale of land, what happened?
(a) The land became more fertile.
(b) J moved far away.
(c) R reported what was happening.
(d) Cattle began to act insane.

10. 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?
(a) Inward to some music only he has ever heard.
(b) Inward to his own story.
(c) Inward to the voices in his head.
(d) Inward to his own thoughts and ideas.

11. In “The United States Welcomes You,” the speaker asks if the person is there in regard to whom?
(a) Living a better life.
(b) Family members.
(c) Others that have been mistreated.
(d) Rumors they have heard.

12. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” a person says they were dragged and what else?
(a) Burned.
(b) Jeered at.
(c) Choked.
(d) Beaten.

13. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” what does the audience begin to sense?
(a) They are in a Broadway theater.
(b) This is a rehearsal, rather than a performance; the show is not even cast yet.
(c) They are part of the production.
(d) The cast has not rehearsed enough.

14. In "Refuge," the narrator imagines what it must have been like to do what, as she imagines her mother and her hardships in Alabama?
(a) Cry, struggle, and run.
(b) Run and hide.
(c) Flee, bleed, to endure insults.
(d) Fight, and fight, and fight.

15. In “Political Poem,” the speaker talks about what kind of understanding in the work of these mowers?
(a) A unique.
(b) An uncommon.
(c) A lack thereof.
(d) A common.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "4 ½," the speaker describes a little girl who is either found asleep with her stuffed animals in the morning or doing what?

2. In “Watershed,” what does the speaker first describe?

3. In "In Your Condition," the speaker hikes up a hill to take photos, much like she did the year before, but only does it for what reason?

4. In "Ash," the speaker says the house that is made of skin and bones does not believe what?

5. A comparison is made in "The Everlasting Self" of an old love to what?

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