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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,” how much money did a man say he raised to free himself and his wife?
(a) $2,000.
(b) $200.
(c) $10,000.
(d) $1,000.

2. In "Ghazal," to what does the speaker compare to the stealing of someone’s name?
(a) Pickpocketing a naive tourist.
(b) Working in the fields and stripping the stalks of stolen crops.
(c) Stealing money from a bank or precious jewels from a safe.
(d) Attacking and robbing someone at gunpoint.

3. In "Ash," the speaker describes a house that must constantly be replenished and repaired, a house that does what?
(a) Sings and dances.
(b) Trips and falls.
(c) Gets injured and injures.
(d) Complains and sighs.

4. In “Watershed,” who was employed at the factory and subsequently sold land to the factory?
(a) M.
(b) R.
(c) D.
(d) J.

5. Who does the speaker in "Ghazal" say has been taught their name?
(a) Many.
(b) No one.
(c) The chosen few.
(d) Everyone.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In “Watershed,” soon after the sale of land, what happened?

3. Why does the woman make such a strong plea at the beginning of ”I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It”?

4. In “Political Poem,” the speaker talks about what kind of understanding in the work of these mowers?

5. In "Refuge," the narrator imagines what it must have been like to do what, as she imagines her mother and her hardships in Alabama?

(see the answer key)

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