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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In “Eternity, Songzhuang Art Village," the speakers sees a photograph of a picture of who, looking off to what once must have seemed the future?
(a) Prokofiev.
(b) Tolstoy.
(c) Dostoevsky.
(d) Tchaikovsky.

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

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

4. In “The United States Welcomes You,” the speaker questions the color of what?
(a) The person’s religion.
(b) The person’s gender.
(c) The person’s skin.
(d) The person’s age.

5. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” a man pretends to do what?
(a) Cry.
(b) Spit.
(c) Choke.
(d) Laugh.

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

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

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

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

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

11. In “New Road Station,” history is compared to a mother doing what?
(a) Shooing away the chickens.
(b) Washing laundry.
(c) Corralling her children.
(d) Calling her family to dinner.

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

13. In “The United States Welcomes You,” the speaker asks why the person is afraid and what else?
(a) If he or she would like to join any organizations.
(b) If there is something he or she would like to confess.
(c) If he or she has attended school.
(d) If he or she thinks coming here is a good idea.

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

15. How does “The United States Welcomes You” end?
(a) With the speaker asking them about their skill set.
(b) With the speaker telling them to leave.
(c) With a speaker asking if there are some sort of test that they must take and what if they fail.
(d) With the speaker asking about their cultural traditions.

Short Answer Questions

1. In “Unrest in Baton Rouge,” the narrator describes how people watch and are saddened by violent actions but then do what?

2. In “Eternity, Lama Temple,” the speaker is surprised to be allowed to do?

3. In “Eternity, Lama Temple,” the speaker watches others do what?

4. In "Ash," the speaker says the house that is made of skin and bones does not believe what?

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

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