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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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.

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

6. In “Watershed,” what is a pipe dispensing?
(a) Green liquid.
(b) Brown goo.
(c) Black tar.
(d) Clean water.

7. In “New Road Station,” history is not the silence found where?
(a) In an old house v
(b) In a prayer meeting.
(c) At the start of a funeral procession.
(d) In a room while a history film is being watched.

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

9. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” a person says they were dragged and what else?
(a) Burned.
(b) Jeered at.
(c) Beaten.
(d) Choked.

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

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

12. In “Eternity,” the speaker asks what the soul is allowed to do?
(a) Destroy.
(b) Travel.
(c) Take with it.
(d) Remove.

13. In “Political Poem,” the speaker talks about what kind of understanding in the work of these mowers?
(a) A lack thereof.
(b) A common.
(c) A unique.
(d) An uncommon.

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

15. In “Watershed,” who was employed at the factory and subsequently sold land to the factory?
(a) D.
(b) J.
(c) R.
(d) M.

Short Answer Questions

1. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” what does the audience begin to sense?

2. In “The United States Welcomes You,” the speaker asks why the person is afraid and what else?

3. In "An Old Story," the speaker says that they were told what would be horrible?

4. In “Watershed,” what does the speaker first describe?

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

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