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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the father plead to not have his family removed from the camp in “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It”?
(a) He has no home for them to stay in.
(b) His wife is ill and cannot care for the children.
(c) He wants them to stay near him at the camp.
(d) One of his children is very sick.

2. When a holy person, as mentioned in "Deadly," imagines trembling, what is trembling in fear?
(a) God.
(b) The entire natural world.
(c) Man.
(d) The tiger.

3. In "The World is Your Beautiful Younger Sister," the world is compared to what?
(a) A young, innocent woman taken advantage of by rough men.
(b) A locket on a chain.
(c) A wilde, savage place.
(d) A young gazelle.

4. In "The Greatest Personal Privation," Stanza 4, the speaker and others, known as ‘we,’ want to do what?
(a) Forgive those who have sinned against them.
(b) Flee.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Something about all that has happened.

5. In “Unrest in Baton Rouge,” how is love described?
(a) An alien idea.
(b) Bleeding out.
(c) A total loss.
(d) A heart cut open and cleaned like a dead animal.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the poem "Unwritten" begin?

2. The speaker remembers angels once in a hotel room. Why were they there?

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

4. As the angels speak, the speaker dares to look at them and sees what?

5. What will the other character do as you discover what each light, line, and shadow is in "A Man's World"?

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