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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Notes and Acknowledgments.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In "Refuge," the narrator imagines what it must have been like to do what, as she imagines her mother and her hardships in Alabama?
(a) Fight, and fight, and fight.
(b) Cry, struggle, and run.
(c) Flee, bleed, to endure insults.
(d) Run and hide.

3. In “Watershed,” it is revealed that the company decided against what, and chose to pay a low-level employee for inexpensive land for a landfill?
(a) Changing to a less toxic chemical.
(b) Telling the truth about the leak.
(c) Dumping the chemicals into the ocean.
(d) Fixing their current landfills.

4. Who does the speaker in "Ghazal" say has been taught their name?
(a) Many.
(b) Everyone.
(c) No one.
(d) The chosen few.

5. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” the women crouch down around the man and tell him what?
(a) They will not rest until his kind is dead.
(b) He should be sorry.
(c) They forgive him.
(d) The only way this country’s going to turn around is – it will be a bloodbath.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "4 ½," like what animal pulling at its tether and scraping its horns against a rock, does the little girl emphasize what exactly she wants?

2. "Urban Youth" begins as the speaker remembers being woken up by an older sibling on Saturday mornings to do what?

3. In "The Greatest Personal Privation," if these people turn out to be evil, then the speaker and others like her will meet this evil how?

4. In “Watershed,” In italics, the speaker who is floating over the city can move and do what?

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

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