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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The character in "Hill Country" passes what injured animal?
(a) A skunk.
(b) A deer.
(c) A cat.
(d) A dog.

2. What causes the speaker in "Wade in the Water" painful grief?
(a) The river in which people wade.
(b) The fear in everyone's eyes.
(c) The woman going to each stranger saying, "I love you" and meaning it.
(d) The people in chains.

3. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” why does a wife ask her husband to send for her?
(a) She is unable to leave her mistress.
(b) She is still a slave.
(c) She does not know where he is.
(d) She does not have the money to get to him.

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

5. How does the poem "Unwritten" begin?
(a) With a letter from President Lincoln.
(b) With a letter from Mary Jones to Charles Colcock Jones.
(c) With a letter from a slave.
(d) With a letter from Mary Jones to her slaves.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is love described as pain, when singing "Wade in the Water"?

2. Has the narrator of "The Angels" had other angel encounters?

3. In "Realm of Shades," what does the speaker wonder when she thinks about our shadows on the ground?

4. In "The Greatest Personal Privation," what does Mary Jones think is the greatest personal privation?

5. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” what do the colored men in the military say they deserve?

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