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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In “Eternity,” the speaker asks what the soul is allowed to do?
(a) Travel.
(b) Remove.
(c) Destroy.
(d) Take with it.

3. The speaker of "The Greatest Personal Privation" is happy to live without these troubles of slavery and is what?
(a) At peace with God.
(b) Willing to ask her owner to free her.
(c) Hoping to be freed soon.
(d) Willing to run away.

4. In “Watershed,” in italics, the person floating is now in space seeing what as God must view it?
(a) The world.
(b) The galaxy.
(c) Mankind.
(d) The sun.

5. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” a slave asks President Lincoln advise on how to leave his mistress. Why?
(a) He does not want to offend his mistress.
(b) He does not have the means to leave.
(c) He feels guilty leaving his mistress.
(d) His mistress refuses to let him go.

Short Answer Questions

1. In “Unrest in Baton Rouge,” the narrator describes how people watch and are saddened by violent actions but then do what?

2. After the Civil War, for what did many Black soldiers struggle to receive from the U.S. government?

3. What does the speaker in "Ghazal" ask regarding learning one’s name?

4. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” a woman stands in fear as she remembers what?

5. In "The Greatest Personal Privation," what does Mary Jones think is the greatest personal privation?

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