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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In “The United States Welcomes You,” the speaker questions the color of what?
(a) The person’s religion.
(b) The person’s gender.
(c) The person’s age.
(d) The person’s skin.

3. In “Watershed,” D’s husband frequently came home sick, and she needed what?
(a) An emergency hysterectomy.
(b) Chemotherapy.
(c) Brain surgery.
(d) An emergency appendectomy.

4. In "In Your Condition," the speaker drinks bottle after bottle of water but gazed longingly at what?
(a) The bottles of red wine.
(b) Deli meat.
(c) The steep hill.
(d) Her bed.

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

6. In "In Your Condition," the speaker describes feeling how?
(a) Tired and hungry.
(b) Bored and annoyed.
(c) Dizzy, queazy, and exhausted.
(d) Elated, ecstatic, and overjoyed.

7. In “The United States Welcomes You,” the speaker asks why the person is afraid and what else?
(a) If he or she thinks coming here is a good idea.
(b) If he or she would like to join any organizations.
(c) If there is something he or she would like to confess.
(d) If he or she has attended school.

8. In "4 ½," the little girl is compared to what?
(a) A cute puppy about to chew up your shoe.
(b) A cute mountain goat who, although first seems harmless, soon lunges at you.
(c) A cute cat, lying in wait to pounce on a mouse.
(d) A cute bunny who has just eaten the plants in your garden.

9. In “Eternity, Lama Temple,” the speaker watches others do what?
(a) Practice yoga.
(b) Give an offering, then bow and pray before a statue.
(c) Sing songs and dance,
(d) Meditate.

10. 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?
(a) To be polite.
(b) To keep up appearances.
(c) To keep busy.
(d) To prove she could do it.

11. In “Eternity,” what are flying in the sky?
(a) Paper airplanes.
(b) Kites and birds.
(c) Balloons and lanterns.
(d) Airplanes and helicoptors.

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

13. In “Watershed,” what is a pipe dispensing?
(a) Clean water.
(b) Black tar.
(c) Green liquid.
(d) Brown goo.

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

15. In “Watershed,” in italics, he, assumed to be God, is telling the person in space what?
(a) How the earth is just a dead thing you can claim.
(b) How the earth is for mankind to do with it as he wishes.
(c) How the earth used to be much larger.
(d) How the earth is a being all its own and has been weakened.

Short Answer Questions

1. In “The United States Welcomes You,” the speaker is questioning an unknown person, asking what?

2. In "An Old Story," the speaker says that they were told what would be horrible?

3. “Unrest in Baton Rouge,” is inspired by a photo by whom?

4. 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?

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

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