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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does "An Old Story" end?
(a) Hopeful.
(b) Anxious.
(c) Sad.
(d) Angry.

2. How does “The United States Welcomes You” end?
(a) With the speaker asking about their cultural traditions.
(b) With the speaker asking them about their skill set.
(c) With a speaker asking if there are some sort of test that they must take and what if they fail.
(d) With the speaker telling them to leave.

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

4. 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.

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

6. In "4 ½," like what animal pulling at its tether and scraping its horns against a rock, does the little girl emphasize what exactly she wants?
(a) The bunny.
(b) The puppy.
(c) The goat.
(d) The cat.

7. In "Beatific," how do the drivers of the cars feel?
(a) Annoyed and impatient.
(b) Worried and anxious.
(c) Happy and entertained.
(d) Amused and delighted.

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

9. In “Watershed,” In italics, the speaker who is floating over the city can move and do what?
(a) Fly quickly.
(b) Think quickly.
(c) See clearly.
(d) Sail smoothly.

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

11. In “Eternity, Nanluoguxiang Alley" the speaker says that seeing these familiar faces of others makes the speaker believe what?
(a) We are all very closely related.
(b) All of us must be buried deep within each other.
(c) We are all human.
(d) We are not so different, after all.

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

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In “Watershed,” how is camera footage described?

2. 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?

3. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” a woman stands in fear as she remembers what?

4. In “Watershed,” who is taking this case and filed a lawsuit?

5. In “New Road Station,” what is history?

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