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

2. In “The United States Welcomes You,” the speaker is questioning an unknown person, asking what?
(a) What language they speak and what country they are from.
(b) Why they have been sent there and if they plan to steal anything.
(c) What job qualifications they have.
(d) What they have come from and where they plan to go.

3. In “Watershed,” who was employed at the factory and subsequently sold land to the factory?
(a) R.
(b) D.
(c) J.
(d) M.

4. In “Watershed,” it is revealed that the company decided against what, and chose to pay a low-level employee for inexpensive land for a landfill?
(a) Dumping the chemicals into the ocean.
(b) Fixing their current landfills.
(c) Changing to a less toxic chemical.
(d) Telling the truth about the leak.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In “Eternity, Landscape Painting," the speaker can almost still remember what, as if this were his or her home?

2. In "Refuge," the narrator imagines what it must have been like to do what, as she imagines her mother and her hardships in Alabama?

3. In "Dusk," although the speaker sits at the same table with her daughter, what is clear?

4. In “Watershed,” In italics, the speaker who is floating over the city can move and do what?

5. In “Watershed,” the speaker describes the poor choices made by whom, including keeping the chemical leak secret?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the speaker find in "Eternity: Songzhuang Art Village"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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