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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Call us names.
(d) Destroy everything that is not our name.

2. In “New Road Station,” the speaker says that history is not what?
(a) A crowd forming in a square chanting “no and now.”
(b) What the Western world teaches.
(c) The slow tick of a clock.
(d) What is written in history books.

3. In “Watershed,” D’s husband frequently came home sick, and she needed what?
(a) Brain surgery.
(b) An emergency hysterectomy.
(c) Chemotherapy.
(d) An emergency appendectomy.

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

5. The speaker of "Deadly" says that those who are holy imagine a strong beast that attacks and kills what?
(a) A gazelle.
(b) A tiger.
(c) A human.
(d) A giraffe.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. In “New Road Station,” history is compared to a mother doing what?

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

5. In “Watershed,” in italics, he, assumed to be God, is telling the person in space what?

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