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

2. In “The United States Welcomes You,” the speaker is questioning an unknown person, asking what?
(a) What job qualifications they have.
(b) What language they speak and what country they are from.
(c) Why they have been sent there and if they plan to steal anything.
(d) What they have come from and where they plan to go.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In “Watershed,” soon after the sale of land, what happened?

2. In "Beatific," how do the drivers of the cars feel?

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

4. In "Urban Youth," the speaker remembers her home and her mother’s worry as her father and siblings teach her what?

5. How does "An Old Story" end?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does "New Road Station" say about the speed of history?

2. What do the women say to the man, as they crouch down around him in "Theatrical Improvisation"?

3. How does Dupont end up acquiring J's land in "Watershed"?

4. What malformations are described in "Watershed"?

5. What is said about the house in “Ash”?

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

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

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

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

10. Of what is the speaker ashamed in “Annunciation”?

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