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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In “Watershed,” the speaker describes the poor choices made by whom, including keeping the chemical leak secret?
(a) R.
(b) M.
(c) DuPont.
(d) J.

3. In “Watershed,” soon after the sale of land, what happened?
(a) The land became more fertile.
(b) R reported what was happening.
(c) Cattle began to act insane.
(d) J moved far away.

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

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

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

7. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” the women go from fear to what?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Loneliness.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Love.

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

9. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” In the back of the house, one person begins to do what?
(a) Wails.
(b) Shouts.
(c) Clap.
(d) Jeers.

10. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” what does the audience begin to sense?
(a) They are part of the production.
(b) They are in a Broadway theater.
(c) This is a rehearsal, rather than a performance; the show is not even cast yet.
(d) The cast has not rehearsed enough.

11. 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) Herself and her family.
(d) Her neighbors.

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

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

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

15. In “Watershed,” it is revealed that the company decided against what, and chose to pay a low-level employee for inexpensive land for a landfill?
(a) Changing to a less toxic chemical.
(b) Telling the truth about the leak.
(c) Dumping the chemicals into the ocean.
(d) Fixing their current landfills.

Short Answer Questions

1. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” the women crouch down around the man and tell him what?

2. In “Watershed,” who was employed at the factory and subsequently sold land to the factory?

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

4. In “Watershed,” what is a pipe dispensing?

5. In "Beatific," how do the drivers of the cars feel?

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