2. The speaker of "The Greatest Personal Privation" says in Stanza 1 it is terrible belonging to this woman. Why?
(a) This woman forces them to work in the fields.
(b) Their owners cannot be trusts, because they have the power to destroy the whole family.
(c) This woman is abusive and does not care for anyone but herself.
(d) Their owners will not sell them to others.

3. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” the man steps back and falls down. He then describes what?
(a) A time he slept outside a station and was woken up by someone urinating on him; he was then beaten with a metal rod.
(b) A time he beat up a homeless man asleep at a train station.
(c) A time he used to care about others.
(d) His ill wife.

4. Why does the father plead to not have his family removed from the camp in “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It”?
(a) His wife is ill and cannot care for the children.
(b) He wants them to stay near him at the camp.
(c) He has no home for them to stay in.
(d) One of his children is very sick.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” what is the general response in the list the responses of some when was asked their age?

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

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

4. In "Declaration," an unnamed ‘he’ has sent officers to do what?

5. In “Eternity, Landscape Painting," the speaker can almost still remember what, as if this were his or her home?

(see the answer key)

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