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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In “Watershed,” what does the speaker first describe?
(a) Beautiful water.
(b) Land and cattle.
(c) The landfill.
(d) J's life.

2. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” a man is leaning on what?
(a) A cane.
(b) A stick or a rifle.
(c) A wall.
(d) A friend.

3. 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?
(a) The bunny.
(b) The cat.
(c) The puppy.
(d) The goat.

4. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” a person says that a woman pulled something from her head and told her what?
(a) It was a sin.
(b) It was not allowed.
(c) It was unlawful.
(d) It was disgusting.

5. In “New Road Station,” history is not the silence found where?
(a) In a prayer meeting.
(b) At the start of a funeral procession.
(c) In a room while a history film is being watched.
(d) In an old house v

6. In "Annunciation," the speaker is ashamed of what?
(a) The solitude in her life.
(b) Her easy life.
(c) The modernization of the world around her.
(d) The busy world around her.

7. In "In Your Condition," the speaker describes feeling how?
(a) Bored and annoyed.
(b) Elated, ecstatic, and overjoyed.
(c) Dizzy, queazy, and exhausted.
(d) Tired and hungry.

8. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” the women go from fear to what?
(a) Loneliness.
(b) Anxiety.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Love.

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

10. In “Watershed,” in italics, he, assumed to be God, is telling the person in space what?
(a) How the earth is for mankind to do with it as he wishes.
(b) How the earth used to be much larger.
(c) How the earth is a being all its own and has been weakened.
(d) How the earth is just a dead thing you can claim.

11. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” what does the audience begin to sense?
(a) This is a rehearsal, rather than a performance; the show is not even cast yet.
(b) The cast has not rehearsed enough.
(c) They are in a Broadway theater.
(d) They are part of the production.

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

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

14. In "An Old Story," the speaker says that they were told what would be horrible?
(a) The love for others.
(b) The wanting, need, and strong hate.
(c) The end of life.
(d) The watching of youth fade away.

15. In “Eternity, Nanluoguxiang Alley," the speaker is looking for the face of whom amid the faces of others?
(a) Her friends.
(b) Her dead relatives.
(c) Herself and her family.
(d) Her neighbors.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. In "In Your Condition," the speaker drinks bottle after bottle of water but gazed longingly at what?

4. In “Eternity,” what are flying in the sky?

5. How does “Unrest in Baton Rouge” begin?

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