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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what do the memories of this "Garden of Eden" remind the speaker?
(a) Brooklyn and being in her thirties.
(b) College life.
(c) Her family.
(d) Her childhood.

2. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” a husband writes to his wife, encouraging her to bring herself and their children, including the baby he has never met, to him in what state?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) North Carolina.
(d) Tennessee.

3. Who is the character in "Hill Country" revealed to be?
(a) A woodsman.
(b) God.
(c) Abraham.
(d) An angel.

4. In “New Road Station,” what is history?
(a) A bus that is about to take off.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) The voice on the radio.
(d) Asleep in a tomb or in a bomb.

5. In “Political Poem,” the speaker talks about what kind of understanding in the work of these mowers?
(a) A lack thereof.
(b) A common.
(c) A unique.
(d) An uncommon.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. In "Hill Country," the speaker describes someone as he travels where?

3. In “Watershed,” In italics, the speaker who is floating over the city describes everything glowing and bands of what were being dispersed from a huge universal heartbeat?

4. In "The Greatest Personal Privation," if these people turn out to be evil, then the speaker and others like her will meet this evil how?

5. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” what is the general response in the list the responses of some when was asked their age?

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