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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,” the women go from fear to what?

2. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” a man is leaning on what?

3. In “Eternity,” the speaker asks what the soul is allowed to do?

4. In "4 ½," like what animal pulling at its tether and scraping its horns against a rock, does the little girl emphasize what exactly she wants?

5. In “Political Poem,” the speaker wonders what would happen if what happened?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the speaker realize about life in “An Old Story”?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What takes place in “Urban Youth”?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who are the characters found in Tracy's poetry? What do the characters have in common? What is the narrator‘s relationship to the various characters? What might Tracy‘s relationship be with the characters she creates?

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

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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