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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 "Beatific," the speaker watches a bow-legged man in black sweatpants slowly do what?
(a) Walk to his car.
(b) Dance and sing.
(c) Play shuffleboard.
(d) Cross the street.

2. In "Annunciation," the speaker is ashamed of what?
(a) The modernization of the world around her.
(b) The busy world around her.
(c) The solitude in her life.
(d) Her easy life.

3. In “Political Poem,” the speaker talks about what kind of understanding in the work of these mowers?
(a) A unique.
(b) A lack thereof.
(c) An uncommon.
(d) A common.

4. "The Everlasting Self" is about one coming in from where?
(a) The car.
(b) The rain.
(c) The snow.
(d) Outside.

5. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” the women go from fear to what?
(a) Loneliness.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Love.
(d) Anxiety.

Short Answer Questions

1. In “Political Poem,” the speaker wonders what would happen if what happened?

2. In “New Road Station,” what is history?

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

4. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” a person says that a woman pulled something from her head and told her what?

5. "Dusk" begins with the speaker comparing life with her self-centered daughter to what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the man in "Theatrical Improvisation" say happens when he sleeps outside a station?

3. What are two of the questions asked in "The United States Welcomes You"?

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

5. An actor in "Theatrical Improvisation" says that they were given a piece of paper to draw what they experienced. What are a few of their experiences?

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

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

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

9. How does the speaker describe a woman in “Charity”?

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

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