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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 "Dusk," although the speaker sits at the same table with her daughter, what is clear?
(a) Her daughter cannot hear her.
(b) Her daughter is busy doing homework.
(c) Her daughter is not interested in being with her mother.
(d) She wishes she were elsewhere.

2. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” a man pretends to do what?
(a) Choke.
(b) Spit.
(c) Cry.
(d) Laugh.

3. In “Unrest in Baton Rouge,” how is love described?
(a) Bleeding out.
(b) A heart cut open and cleaned like a dead animal.
(c) An alien idea.
(d) A total loss.

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

5. In “Watershed,” how is camera footage described?
(a) Dark and hard to see.
(b) Bright, cheerful, and full of happy music.
(c) Filled with static and grainy with sounds that made it seem like a horror film.
(d) Clear and beautiful.

Short Answer Questions

1. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” the man steps back and falls down. He then describes what?

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

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

4. In “Watershed,” what does the speaker first describe?

5. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” a person says they were dragged and what else?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does the speaker in "Watershed" feel, as he has the sense of being pulled up?

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

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

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