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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 “Eternity, Nanluoguxiang Alley" the speaker says that seeing these familiar faces of others makes the speaker believe what?
(a) We are not so different, after all.
(b) We are all very closely related.
(c) We are all human.
(d) All of us must be buried deep within each other.

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

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 puppy.
(b) The goat.
(c) The bunny.
(d) The cat.

4. In "Urban Youth," the speaker remembers her home and her mother’s worry as her father and siblings teach her what?
(a) To ride a bike.
(b) To dance.
(c) To garden.
(d) To play ball.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In “Watershed,” in italics, the person floating is now in space seeing what as God must view it?

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 "Refuge," the speaker imagines a teen girl in a camp in what country?

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

5. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” actors arrive, carrying what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is “The Everlasting Self” described in the poem?

2. What does the speaker look for in "Eternity: Nanluoguxiang Alley"? What does she find?

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

4. What does the speaker in "Eternity: Landscape Painting" say when he or she views the painting?

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

6. How does the speaker in "Watershed" feel, as he has the sense of being pulled up?

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

8. How does "The United States Welcomes You" end?

9. What are two things to which history is compared in "New Road Station"?

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

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