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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 "Urban Youth," the speaker remembers her home and her mother’s worry as her father and siblings teach her what?
(a) To play ball.
(b) To garden.
(c) To ride a bike.
(d) To dance.

2. A comparison is made in "The Everlasting Self" of an old love to what?
(a) Old photographs.
(b) An aging barn.
(c) Mud a dog has tracked in.
(d) Fine threads in a coat.

3. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” In the back of the house, one person begins to do what?
(a) Clap.
(b) Jeers.
(c) Wails.
(d) Shouts.

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

5. In “New Road Station,” what is history?
(a) Asleep in a tomb or in a bomb.
(b) The voice on the radio.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) A bus that is about to take off.

Short Answer Questions

1. In “Unrest in Baton Rouge,” how is love described?

2. 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?

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

4. In "4 ½," like what animal pulling at its tether and scraping its horns against a rock, does the little girl emphasize what exactly she wants?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the speaker realize about life in “An Old Story”?

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

3. What are two things the speaker imagines in “Refuge”?

4. To what is the like girl compared in “4 1/2”?

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

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

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

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

9. To what does the speaker in “Dusk” compare life with her teenage daughter?

10. In "Eternity: Lama Temple," what does the speaker notice around him or her?

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