Ocean Vuong reads "Dear Sara"

The poem "Dear Sara" is dedicated to the speaker's little cousin, Sara. What was the speaker tasked with helping Sara do when she was seven years old?

• Learn to read

• Work on her writing

• Build a sandcastle

• Solve math problems

What profound question did Sara ask that became the epigraph of the poem?

• What is the meaning of life?

• Why do ants cross deserts?

• What's the point of writing if you're just gonna force a bunch of ants to cross a white desert?

• How do you write a good poem?

In the poem, what is "learning" metaphorically described as?

• Stone tablets

• Black bones

• Shrapnel embedded in the brain

• A white desert

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What does the poem reveal about Aunt Rose?

• She is a true soldier ant.

• She is a hoarder of massive things.

• She has been gone for two years.

• She is like a stone tablet.