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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In “Unrest in Baton Rouge,” the narrator describes how people watch and are saddened by violent actions but then do what?
(a) Sleep, eat, repeat.
(b) Sleep, stir, eat.
(c) Live and let live.
(d) Forget.

2. 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.

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

4. In “Eternity, Lama Temple,” the speaker is surprised to be allowed to do?
(a) Enter.
(b) Take photographs.
(c) Pray.
(d) Leave a donation.

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

6. In "Urban Youth," the speaker remembers her home and her mother’s worry as her father and siblings teach her what?
(a) To play ball.
(b) To ride a bike.
(c) To garden.
(d) To dance.

7. 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) Why they have been sent there and if they plan to steal anything.
(c) What job qualifications they have.
(d) What they have come from and where they plan to go.

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

9. 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 cat, lying in wait to pounce on a mouse.
(c) A cute bunny who has just eaten the plants in your garden.
(d) A cute puppy about to chew up your shoe.

10. In "Beatific," the speaker watches a bow-legged man in black sweatpants slowly do what?
(a) Cross the street.
(b) Dance and sing.
(c) Play shuffleboard.
(d) Walk to his car.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Refuge," the speaker can picture the men walking up Harrison Street and pictures them as if they are who?

2. How does "An Old Story" end?

3. In "Charity," the speaker describes an elderly woman as she does what?

4. In “Political Poem,” the work of these engines takes forever, and the speaker thinks of how he or she would love what?

5. In “Watershed,” soon after the sale of land, what happened?

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