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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the speaker of "The Angels" reflects on what it must be like to be an angel, about what does she think?
(a) What is must be like flying between heaven and earth.
(b) How simple their lives must be.
(c) What it must be like working for God.
(d) What they must go through to continually come earth side to encourage us to not have fear.

2. In Stanza 3 of "The Greatest Personal Privation," the speaker says that the entire country may not be able to heal from what?
(a) The abuse of power.
(b) This separation of parent and child.
(c) The plantation life.
(d) Slavery.

3. How are the angels described in "The Angels"?
(a) Poor and in rags.
(b) Much like most of humanity.
(c) White and glittering.
(d) Grizzled and in leather bike gear.

4. There was love in the water, where the people pretended to do what?
(a) Wade.
(b) Swim.
(c) Bathe.
(d) Get baptized.

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

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

3. The character in "Hill Country" can almost believe in what?

4. In "The Angels," who does the speaker say spoke to angels as she was dying?

5. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” a man who was able to free himself and his wife asked in the letter for what to happen?

(see the answer key)

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