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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Dusk," although the speaker sits at the same table with her daughter, what is clear?
(a) Her daughter is busy doing homework.
(b) Her daughter cannot hear her.
(c) Her daughter is not interested in being with her mother.
(d) She wishes she were elsewhere.

2. In "4 ½," when this little girl is hungry, what does she have?
(a) Specific food requests.
(b) Crackers.
(c) Only yogurt.
(d) Peanut butter.

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

4. In "Ash," the speaker says the house that is made of skin and bones does not believe what?
(a) It is made of skin and bones.
(b) It is human.
(c) That it is a house.
(d) It has feelings.

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

6. In “Watershed,” D’s first husband was what?
(a) A bio-engineer.
(b) A veterinarian.
(c) A chemist.
(d) A pharmacist.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. In "4 ½," the speaker describes a little girl who is either found asleep with her stuffed animals in the morning or doing what?
(a) Running around the house asking for breakfast.
(b) Playing with her toys in her room.
(c) Barging into her mother’s room to wake her up and tell her she has to pee.
(d) Crying for Mommy to come play with her.

14. “New Road Station” begins by talking about what?
(a) The slow progress of history.
(b) The hurry that history is in.
(c) The love of history.
(d) The endlessness of history.

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

Short Answer 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?

2. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” the women go from fear to what?

3. In "Beatific," the man jogs but, nevertheless, still moves slowly possibly thinking that those cars waiting for him see him how?

4. "The Everlasting Self" is about one coming in from where?

5. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” a person says that a woman pulled something from her head and told her what?

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