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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” for what are they willing to sacrifice themselves and their families?
(a) Abundance and Charity.
(b) Independence and Hope.
(c) Freedom and Humanity.
(d) God and Country.

2. For what does the speaker in “Unwritten” feel that Mary and all others like her must answer?
(a) What they think of slaves and their capabilities.
(b) Freeing their slaves so quickly with no financial support.
(c) Not paying their slaves an honest wage.
(d) What they have done to the people they have enslaved and mistreated so terribly.

3. 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 plantation life.
(b) Slavery.
(c) The abuse of power.
(d) This separation of parent and child.

4. The character in "Hill Country" comes down the road in his jeep with the windows rolled down. Why?
(a) So he can call out the windows to passersby.
(b) So he can smell the fresh air.
(c) So he can feel the branches as they brush against the vehicle and himself.
(d) So he can air out his smelly jeep.

5. In "Realm of Shades," what does the speaker wonder when she thinks about our shadows on the ground?
(a) Where do shadows come from?
(b) How many shadows have passed this way?
(c) How much more will we bury in the earth?
(d) What hides in the shadows?

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an issue with the pensions of the black Civil War soldiers?

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

3. What does the character in "Hill Country" stave off in regard to the injured animal?

4. In "Ghazal," to what does the speaker compare to the stealing of someone’s name?

5. The character in "Hill Country" passes what injured animal?

(see the answer key)

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