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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Refuge," the speaker can picture the men walking up Harrison Street and pictures them as if they are who?
(a) Her uncle.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her grandfather.
(d) Her friends.

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

4. In “Political Poem,” the work of these engines takes forever, and the speaker thinks of how he or she would love what?
(a) How smooth it would be.
(b) How nice the grass would smell.
(c) How long it would last.
(d) How little it would last.

5. In “The United States Welcomes You,” the speaker questions the color of what?
(a) The person’s skin.
(b) The person’s gender.
(c) The person’s age.
(d) The person’s religion.

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

7. 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 language they speak and what country they are from.
(d) What job qualifications they have.

8. In “Political Poem,” the speaker wonders what would happen if what happened?
(a) The mowers all ran out of gas.
(b) The mowers were moved to another yard.
(c) The mowers mowed over each other's parts of the yard.
(d) One mower after another stopped and greeted the others before returning back to work.

9. “Unrest in Baton Rouge,” is inspired by a photo by whom?
(a) Jon Mulhern.
(b) Jonathan Bateman.
(c) Jonathan Bachman.
(d) Heather Huie.

10. In "Charity," the speaker describes an elderly woman as she does what?
(a) Tells someone's fortune.
(b) Shops at the grocery store.
(c) Asks for assistance.
(d) Walks unsteadily but determined.

11. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” In the back of the house, one person begins to do what?
(a) Shouts.
(b) Wails.
(c) Clap.
(d) Jeers.

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

13. In “Eternity,” the speaker asks what the soul is allowed to do?
(a) Remove.
(b) Take with it.
(c) Travel.
(d) Destroy.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In “Watershed,” what is a pipe dispensing?

2. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” the man steps back and falls down. He then describes what?

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?

4. In “Eternity, Songzhuang Art Village," the speaker describes pulling what out of art racks, as if they are spirits who are no longer in their bodies?

5. In “Watershed,” In italics, the speaker who is floating over the city can move and do what?

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