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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Annunciation," the speaker wants to experience what is real – “the cold, the pitiless, the bleak,” nature, or her son, who is forever turned where?
(a) Inward to some music only he has ever heard.
(b) Inward to his own thoughts and ideas.
(c) Inward to his own story.
(d) Inward to the voices in his head.

2. In “Political Poem,” the speaker wonders what would happen if what happened?
(a) The mowers mowed over each other's parts of the yard.
(b) The mowers were moved to another yard.
(c) One mower after another stopped and greeted the others before returning back to work.
(d) The mowers all ran out of gas.

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

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

5. 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 friends.
(d) Her father.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In “The United States Welcomes You,” the speaker questions the color of what?

3. In “Eternity, Landscape Painting," the speaker can almost still remember what, as if this were his or her home?

4. How does "An Old Story" end?

5. In "Beatific," the speaker watches a bow-legged man in black sweatpants slowly do what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the speaker feel in “In Your Condition”?

2. What does the speaker observe in “Beatific”?

3. In "Theatrical Improvisation," what do two of the people remember?

4. What does the man in "Theatrical Improvisation" say about "these" people?

5. What malformations are described in "Watershed"?

6. What does the speaker find in "Eternity: Songzhuang Art Village"?

7. What is described in "Unrest in Baton Rouge"?

8. What does the audience begin to sense in "Theatrical Improvisation"?

9. How is “The Everlasting Self” described in the poem?

10. What does the speaker look for in "Eternity: Nanluoguxiang Alley"? What does she find?

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