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

2. In “New Road Station,” the speaker says that history is not what?
(a) The slow tick of a clock.
(b) What the Western world teaches.
(c) What is written in history books.
(d) A crowd forming in a square chanting “no and now.”

3. In “Eternity, Lama Temple,” the speaker is surprised to be allowed to do?
(a) Leave a donation.
(b) Pray.
(c) Enter.
(d) Take photographs.

4. In “Eternity,” what are flying in the sky?
(a) Kites and birds.
(b) Airplanes and helicoptors.
(c) Paper airplanes.
(d) Balloons and lanterns.

5. In “Watershed,” the speaker in italics feels him or herself being pulled up through what?
(a) The center of the earth.
(b) The many floors of the hospital up to the sky.
(c) The ground.
(d) The attic.

Short Answer Questions

1. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” In the back of the house, one person begins to do what?

2. In “Political Poem,” the work of these engines takes forever, and the speaker thinks of how he or she would love what?

3. In "In Your Condition," the speaker drinks bottle after bottle of water but gazed longingly at what?

4. “New Road Station” begins by talking about what?

5. In “Watershed,” in italics, the person floating is now in space seeing what as God must view it?

Short Essay Questions

1. What takes place in “Urban Youth”?

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

3. How does "The United States Welcomes You" end?

4. What does the speaker in "Eternity: Landscape Painting" say when he or she views the painting?

5. What does the speaker say about the wall in "Mutianyu, Great Wall"?

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

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

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

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

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

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