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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” a man pretends to do what?
(a) Cry.
(b) Choke.
(c) Spit.
(d) Laugh.

2. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” a person says that a woman pulled something from her head and told her what?
(a) It was disgusting.
(b) It was a sin.
(c) It was not allowed.
(d) It was unlawful.

3. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” why does a wife ask her husband to send for her?
(a) She does not know where he is.
(b) She is still a slave.
(c) She does not have the money to get to him.
(d) She is unable to leave her mistress.

4. In "The Greatest Personal Privation," what does Mary Jones think is the greatest personal privation?
(a) Not having her two slaves, Patience and Phoebe.
(b) Having to leave her home and move north.
(c) Having to sell her slaves to others.
(d) Not having a new dress every season.

5. In “Watershed,” D’s husband frequently came home sick, and she needed what?
(a) Brain surgery.
(b) An emergency hysterectomy.
(c) Chemotherapy.
(d) An emergency appendectomy.

Short Answer Questions

1. In “New Road Station,” the speaker says that history is not what?

2. In "Annunciation," the speaker wants to experience what is real – “the cold, the pitiless, the bleak,” nature, or her son, who is forever turned where?

3. In "Urban Youth," the speaker remembers her home and her mother’s worry as her father and siblings teach her what?

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

5. In “Watershed,” D’s first husband was what?

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