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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In “Watershed,” how is camera footage described?
(a) Clear and beautiful.
(b) Dark and hard to see.
(c) Bright, cheerful, and full of happy music.
(d) Filled with static and grainy with sounds that made it seem like a horror film.

2. 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) It has feelings.
(d) That it is a house.

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

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

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

6. In “Unrest in Baton Rouge,” how is love described?
(a) Bleeding out.
(b) An alien idea.
(c) A total loss.
(d) A heart cut open and cleaned like a dead animal.

7. In “Eternity, Nanluoguxiang Alley," the speaker is looking for the face of whom amid the faces of others?
(a) Her dead relatives.
(b) Her friends.
(c) Her neighbors.
(d) Herself and her family.

8. 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) Sound.
(b) Heat.
(c) Energy.
(d) Light.

9. In "Refuge," the speaker imagines a teen girl in a camp in what country?
(a) Bangladesh.
(b) Hungary.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Turkey.

10. In “Political Poem,” the work of these engines takes forever, and the speaker thinks of how he or she would love what?
(a) How smooth it would be.
(b) How little it would last.
(c) How nice the grass would smell.
(d) How long it would last.

11. "Dusk" begins with the speaker comparing life with her self-centered daughter to what?
(a) Work.
(b) Life lessons.
(c) Torture.
(d) War.

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

13. A comparison is made in "The Everlasting Self" of an old love to what?
(a) Mud a dog has tracked in.
(b) Old photographs.
(c) An aging barn.
(d) Fine threads in a coat.

14. In “Watershed,” what does the speaker first describe?
(a) The landfill.
(b) Land and cattle.
(c) Beautiful water.
(d) J's life.

15. 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 the voices in his head.
(c) Inward to his own thoughts and ideas.
(d) Inward to his own story.

Short Answer Questions

1. In “Watershed,” the speaker in italics feels him or herself being pulled up through what?

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

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

4. How does “The United States Welcomes You” end?

5. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” a man pretends to do what?

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