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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does “The United States Welcomes You” end?
(a) With the speaker asking them about their skill set.
(b) With a speaker asking if there are some sort of test that they must take and what if they fail.
(c) With the speaker asking about their cultural traditions.
(d) With the speaker telling them to leave.

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

3. Why are sentences left incomplete in "Declaration"?
(a) To confuse the reader.
(b) To leave it to the reader to fill in the blank of what has been stolen or destroyed.
(c) To show the confusion of the speaker.
(d) To reveal how the lives of the characters are incomplete.

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

5. History in "Ghazal" is described as a ship that is always setting sail where the men on either shore do what?
(a) Tease us about our name.
(b) Fight over our name.
(c) Destroy everything that is not our name.
(d) Call us names.

Short Answer Questions

1. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” for what are they willing to sacrifice themselves and their families?

2. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” a man pretends to do what?

3. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” In the back of the house, one person begins to do what?

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,” what do the colored men in the military say they deserve?

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