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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In "Beatific," how do the drivers of the cars feel?
2. In “Eternity, Mutianyu, Great Wall," the speaker describes the grabbing of the wall by whom?
3. In “Watershed,” what does the speaker first describe?
4. In “Watershed,” what causes multiple deformities in animals and humans?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the speaker feel in “In Your Condition”?
2. What do the women say to the man, as they crouch down around him in "Theatrical Improvisation"?
3. How does the speaker in "Watershed" feel, as he has the sense of being pulled up?
4. What are two things to which history is compared in "New Road Station"?
5. Of what is the speaker ashamed in “Annunciation”?
6. In "Theatrical Improvisation," what do two of the people remember?
7. How does Dupont end up acquiring J's land in "Watershed"?
8. What does the speaker in "Eternity: Landscape Painting" say about the soul?
9. What does "New Road Station" say about the speed of history?
10. What does the speaker observe in “Beatific”?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Many of Smith's poems contain descriptive language. Choose one of her poems that is a good example of this. What is the purpose of this language? How does this language affect the reader? How different would the poem be without this type of language? Why?
Essay Topic 2
Several of the poems were created for a specific group or event. How might this have affected the poet and her choices regarding writing these poems? Can this type of inspiration be a hinderance for the poet? Why or why not? How might the poet benefit from certain restrictions when writing a poem?
Essay Topic 3
In “Eternity, Lama Temple,” what is the significance of each of the speaker’s observations? How do these observations affect the speaker? Why? What is the relationship between these observations and the title of the poem?
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