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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 “Theatrical Improvisation,” what does the audience begin to sense?
2. In “Watershed,” in italics, he, assumed to be God, is telling the person in space what?
3. In “Eternity, Songzhuang Art Village," seeing a photograph of her mother, the speaker reminds herself she once wrote what?
4. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” the women go from fear to what?
5. In “New Road Station,” what is history?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the speaker observe in “Beatific”?
2. How does the speaker describe a woman in “Charity”?
3. To what does the speaker in “Dusk” compare life with her teenage daughter?
4. 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?
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. Of what is the speaker ashamed in “Annunciation”?
8. What takes place in “Urban Youth”?
9. What does the speaker in "Eternity: Landscape Painting" say when he or she views the painting?
10. How is “The Everlasting Self” described in the poem?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The majority of Smith's poems have a connection with history. In general, what do her poems say about history? How does she support this belief? Do you agree with her? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
In "Eternity, Landscape Painting,” the speaker asks what the soul is allowed to take with it. Why does the speaker ask this? What does she wonder if the soul can take with it? Why might these be important to the poet and significant to this poem? What is the connection between this question and the title of the poem?
Essay Topic 3
Several of Smith’s poems are about motherhood and the relationship between a parent and child. What are two of these poems? What does each of these poems say about parenthood and/or the parent-child relationship? What is the overall feel of these two poems? Why?
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