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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the Civil War, for what did many Black soldiers struggle to receive from the U.S. government?
(a) Health insurance.
(b) Jobs.
(c) Housing.
(d) A military pension.

2. 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?
(a) Are freed from slavery and soon end up enslaved to educating themselves.
(b) Run right out of slavery In to soldiery.
(c) Run out of slavery and out of the United States for Canada.
(d) Leave slavery and end up in bondage to their new bosses.

3. How does “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It” begin?
(a) With a letter from a mother to her son.
(b) With a letter to Abraham Lincoln from a woman in Carlisle, PA.
(c) With a letter from a woman to her slave owner.
(d) With a letter from a wife to her husband.

4. Why does the woman at the beginning of “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It” say the president will be blessed?
(a) He is a saint among men.
(b) He is a white man of priviledge.
(c) He truly cares about all of his citizens.
(d) He cares for the poor.

5. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” a woman stands in fear as she remembers what?
(a) Being drowned.
(b) Being thrown off a cliff.
(c) Getting a bad grade in a class.
(d) Being pulled and dragged.

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker of "The Greatest Personal Privation" is happy to live without these troubles of slavery and is what?

2. The speaker of "The Greatest Personal Privation" says in Stanza 1 it is terrible belonging to this woman. Why?

3. In “Watershed,” who is taking this case and filed a lawsuit?

4. In "The Greatest Personal Privation," Stanza 4, the speaker and others, known as ‘we,’ want to do what?

5. In "An Old Story," the speaker says that they were told what would be horrible?

(see the answer key)

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