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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "4 ½," the speaker describes a little girl who is either found asleep with her stuffed animals in the morning or doing what?
(a) Crying for Mommy to come play with her.
(b) Barging into her mother’s room to wake her up and tell her she has to pee.
(c) Playing with her toys in her room.
(d) Running around the house asking for breakfast.

2. "Dusk" begins with the speaker comparing life with her self-centered daughter to what?
(a) War.
(b) Life lessons.
(c) Torture.
(d) Work.

3. In “Political Poem,” the speaker talks about what kind of understanding in the work of these mowers?
(a) A common.
(b) A lack thereof.
(c) An uncommon.
(d) A unique.

4. In “Watershed,” in italics, the person floating is now in space seeing what as God must view it?
(a) The sun.
(b) The world.
(c) Mankind.
(d) The galaxy.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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 “Theatrical Improvisation,” a person says they were dragged and what else?

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

5. In "Beatific," the speaker watches a bow-legged man in black sweatpants slowly do what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Of what is the speaker ashamed in “Annunciation”?

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

3. What does the speaker observe in “Beatific”?

4. How does the speaker describe a woman in “Charity”?

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

6. What is said about the house in “Ash”?

7. To what is the like girl compared in “4 1/2”?

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

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

10. 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?

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