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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 can stop aging.
(b) About whether or not we can truly love others.
(c) About whether or not we can live long, happy lives.
(d) About whether or not we are able to save ourselves or others.

2. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” a man is leaning on what?
(a) A cane.
(b) A friend.
(c) A stick or a rifle.
(d) A wall.

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

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

5. In "Charity," the speaker describes an elderly woman as she does what?
(a) Walks unsteadily but determined.
(b) Shops at the grocery store.
(c) Tells someone's fortune.
(d) Asks for assistance.

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

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

8. In “The United States Welcomes You,” the speaker is questioning an unknown person, asking what?
(a) What language they speak and what country they are from.
(b) What job qualifications they have.
(c) What they have come from and where they plan to go.
(d) Why they have been sent there and if they plan to steal anything.

9. 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) Tchaikovsky.
(c) Prokofiev.
(d) Dostoevsky.

10. 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) Fight, and fight, and fight.
(b) Run and hide.
(c) Flee, bleed, to endure insults.
(d) Cry, struggle, and run.

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

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

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

14. “Unrest in Baton Rouge,” is inspired by a photo by whom?
(a) Jon Mulhern.
(b) Jonathan Bateman.
(c) Jonathan Bachman.
(d) Heather Huie.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” a person says they were dragged and what else?

2. In "Annunciation," the speaker is ashamed of what?

3. “New Road Station” begins by talking about what?

4. In “Political Poem,” the speaker wonders what would happen if what happened?

5. In “Watershed,” In italics, the speaker who is floating over the city can move and do what?

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