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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Annunciation," the speaker is ashamed of what?
(a) The modernization of the world around her.
(b) The solitude in her life.
(c) The busy world around her.
(d) Her easy life.

2. In “Watershed,” what is a pipe dispensing?
(a) Black tar.
(b) Brown goo.
(c) Clean water.
(d) Green liquid.

3. In “Unrest in Baton Rouge,” how is love described?
(a) Bleeding out.
(b) A total loss.
(c) A heart cut open and cleaned like a dead animal.
(d) An alien idea.

4. "Urban Youth" begins as the speaker remembers being woken up by an older sibling on Saturday mornings to do what?
(a) Ride bikes.
(b) Watch cartoons.
(c) Play with toys.
(d) Go for a run.

5. In “Eternity, Songzhuang Art Village," the speakers sees a photograph of a picture of who, looking off to what once must have seemed the future?
(a) Tchaikovsky.
(b) Prokofiev.
(c) Dostoevsky.
(d) Tolstoy.

Short Answer Questions

1. “New Road Station” begins by talking about what?

2. Why are sentences left incomplete in "Declaration"?

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 Stanza 3 of "The Greatest Personal Privation," the speaker says that the entire country may not be able to heal from what?

5. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” the speaker says, although the slaves are now free, they are not really free, because they do what?

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