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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In "4 ½," when this little girl is hungry, what does she have?
(a) Specific food requests.
(b) Crackers.
(c) Peanut butter.
(d) Only yogurt.

3. What is NOT a reason why not being able to read or write hinders the paying of a pension deserved to former black Civil War soldiers?
(a) They are not trusted to be the person deserving a pension.
(b) They can steal pensions from other soldiers.
(c) They do not know how to spell their names to request their pensions.
(d) They do not know what their legal names are, as they go by something else.

4. Stanza 5 of "The Greatest Personal Privation" tells of the families destroyed how?
(a) Through regularly selling off male slaves.
(b) By the spreading of lies through famiies.
(c) By the ending of slavery.
(d) Through the selling off of all the parts that make up a family.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Beatific," the speaker watches a bow-legged man in black sweatpants slowly do what?

2. In “Watershed,” what does the speaker first describe?

3. In “Eternity, Nanluoguxiang Alley," the speaker is looking for the face of whom amid the faces of others?

4. In “Watershed,” in italics, the person floating is now in space seeing what as God must view it?

5. How does “Unrest in Baton Rouge” begin?

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