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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Refuge," the narrator imagines what it must have been like to do what, as she imagines her mother and her hardships in Alabama?
(a) Fight, and fight, and fight.
(b) Cry, struggle, and run.
(c) Run and hide.
(d) Flee, bleed, to endure insults.

2. In “Eternity, Songzhuang Art Village," seeing a photograph of her mother, the speaker reminds herself she once wrote what?
(a) About whether or not we are able to save ourselves or others.
(b) About whether or not we can truly love others.
(c) About whether or not we can live long, happy lives.
(d) About whether or not we can stop aging.

3. In “Eternity, Lama Temple,” the speaker is surprised to be allowed to do?
(a) Enter.
(b) Take photographs.
(c) Pray.
(d) Leave a donation.

4. In "Beatific," the man jogs but, nevertheless, still moves slowly possibly thinking that those cars waiting for him see him how?
(a) An annoying old man.
(b) A nuissance.
(c) As Lithe, Swift, Prince of Creation.
(d) A crossing guard.

5. In "Annunciation," the speaker wants to experience what is real – “the cold, the pitiless, the bleak,” nature, or her son, who is forever turned where?
(a) Inward to his own thoughts and ideas.
(b) Inward to the voices in his head.
(c) Inward to some music only he has ever heard.
(d) Inward to his own story.

6. In “The United States Welcomes You,” the speaker asks if the person is there in regard to whom?
(a) Rumors they have heard.
(b) Others that have been mistreated.
(c) Family members.
(d) Living a better life.

7. In “Eternity, Lama Temple,” the speaker watches others do what?
(a) Practice yoga.
(b) Give an offering, then bow and pray before a statue.
(c) Sing songs and dance,
(d) Meditate.

8. In “Watershed,” who is taking this case and filed a lawsuit?
(a) R.
(b) D.
(c) M.
(d) J.

9. In “Eternity, Mutianyu, Great Wall," the speaker describes the grabbing of the wall by whom?
(a) An elderly woman.
(b) A young child.
(c) A tourist who has tripped.
(d) A soldier.

10. 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) Fixing their current landfills.
(b) Dumping the chemicals into the ocean.
(c) Telling the truth about the leak.
(d) Changing to a less toxic chemical.

11. In “Watershed,” In italics, the speaker who is floating over the city can move and do what?
(a) Think quickly.
(b) See clearly.
(c) Fly quickly.
(d) Sail smoothly.

12. In "Refuge," the speaker imagines a teen girl in a camp in what country?
(a) Hungary.
(b) Bangladesh.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Turkey.

13. In “New Road Station,” what is history?
(a) A bus that is about to take off.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) Asleep in a tomb or in a bomb.
(d) The voice on the radio.

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

15. In "Ash," the speaker says the house that is made of skin and bones does not believe what?
(a) That it is a house.
(b) It is human.
(c) It is made of skin and bones.
(d) It has feelings.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "4 ½," the little girl is compared to what?

2. In “New Road Station,” history is not the silence found where?

3. In “Eternity, Nanluoguxiang Alley" the speaker says that seeing these familiar faces of others makes the speaker believe what?

4. “Unrest in Baton Rouge,” is inspired by a photo by whom?

5. In “The United States Welcomes You,” the speaker is questioning an unknown person, asking what?

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