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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 “New Road Station,” history is compared to a mother doing what?
(a) Shooing away the chickens.
(b) Washing laundry.
(c) Corralling her children.
(d) Calling her family to dinner.

2. In “Eternity,” the speaker asks what the soul is allowed to do?
(a) Destroy.
(b) Remove.
(c) Travel.
(d) Take with it.

3. In “Watershed,” In italics, the speaker who is floating over the city describes everything glowing and bands of what were being dispersed from a huge universal heartbeat?
(a) Sound.
(b) Heat.
(c) Light.
(d) Energy.

4. How does "An Old Story" end?
(a) Angry.
(b) Sad.
(c) Anxious.
(d) Hopeful.

5. In “Watershed,” what causes multiple deformities in animals and humans?
(a) PPO.
(b) PFOA.
(c) FFA.
(d) PMA.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” the women crouch down around the man and tell him what?

3. "The Everlasting Self" is about one coming in from where?

4. In “Political Poem,” the speaker talks about what kind of understanding in the work of these mowers?

5. In "Beatific," the man jogs but, nevertheless, still moves slowly possibly thinking that those cars waiting for him see him how?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the speaker in "Eternity: Landscape Painting" say about the soul?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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