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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In “Watershed,” the speaker finishes in italics saying that, for him, God is what?
(a) Light.
(b) Heat.
(c) Bands of energy.
(d) Warm water.

2. In "Refuge," the speaker can picture the men walking up Harrison Street and pictures them as if they are who?
(a) Her uncle.
(b) Her grandfather.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her friends.

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

4. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” an actor describes how they were given paper to draw what?
(a) Pictures of their families.
(b) The atrocities they experienced.
(c) Their favorite animal.
(d) A map to their favorite place.

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

6. In "Refuge," the narrator imagines what it must have been like to do what, as she imagines her mother and her hardships in Alabama?
(a) Run and hide.
(b) Flee, bleed, to endure insults.
(c) Cry, struggle, and run.
(d) Fight, and fight, and fight.

7. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” actors arrive, carrying what?
(a) Children.
(b) Sticks.
(c) Guns.
(d) Heavy burdens.

8. In "Beatific," the man jogs but, nevertheless, still moves slowly possibly thinking that those cars waiting for him see him how?
(a) An annoying old man.
(b) A crossing guard.
(c) As Lithe, Swift, Prince of Creation.
(d) A nuissance.

9. In “Eternity, Mutianyu, Great Wall," the speaker describes the grabbing of the wall by whom?
(a) An elderly woman.
(b) A young child.
(c) A tourist who has tripped.
(d) A soldier.

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

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

12. In "Charity," the speaker describes an elderly woman as she does what?
(a) Tells someone's fortune.
(b) Asks for assistance.
(c) Walks unsteadily but determined.
(d) Shops at the grocery store.

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

14. “Unrest in Baton Rouge,” is inspired by a photo by whom?
(a) Heather Huie.
(b) Jonathan Bateman.
(c) Jon Mulhern.
(d) Jonathan Bachman.

15. 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?
(a) Canvases.
(b) Prints.
(c) Scrolls.
(d) Frames.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In “The United States Welcomes You,” the speaker asks if the person is there in regard to whom?

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

4. In “Watershed,” in italics, he, assumed to be God, is telling the person in space what?

5. How does "An Old Story" end?

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