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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” a woman stands in fear as she remembers what?
(a) Being drowned.
(b) Being thrown off a cliff.
(c) Getting a bad grade in a class.
(d) Being pulled and dragged.

6. 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) Scrolls.
(c) Frames.
(d) Prints.

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

8. 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) Dumping the chemicals into the ocean.
(b) Changing to a less toxic chemical.
(c) Telling the truth about the leak.
(d) Fixing their current landfills.

9. In "In Your Condition," the speaker drinks bottle after bottle of water but gazed longingly at what?
(a) Deli meat.
(b) The bottles of red wine.
(c) Her bed.
(d) The steep hill.

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

11. 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 are able to save ourselves or others.
(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 can live long, happy lives.

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

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

14. In “Political Poem,” the work of these engines takes forever, and the speaker thinks of how he or she would love what?
(a) How nice the grass would smell.
(b) How long it would last.
(c) How smooth it would be.
(d) How little it would last.

15. In “Watershed,” how is camera footage described?
(a) Bright, cheerful, and full of happy music.
(b) Dark and hard to see.
(c) Filled with static and grainy with sounds that made it seem like a horror film.
(d) Clear and beautiful.

Short Answer Questions

1. In “Watershed,” the speaker describes the poor choices made by whom, including keeping the chemical leak secret?

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

3. "Dusk" begins with the speaker comparing life with her self-centered daughter to what?

4. In "4 ½," the little girl is compared to what?

5. "Urban Youth" begins as the speaker remembers being woken up by an older sibling on Saturday mornings to do what?

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