1. In “Watershed,” D’s husband frequently came home sick, and she needed what?
(a) An emergency hysterectomy.
(b) Chemotherapy.
(c) Brain surgery.
(d) An emergency appendectomy.

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

3. In "A Man’s World," the speaker says that someone will very likely show you a world when?
(a) You are tired.
(b) You are scared.
(c) You are alone.
(d) You are not paying attention.

4. What is the reason Mary gives for why it would not be in the best interest of the slaves to be set free?
(a) They could not survive among free society.
(b) They are in a degraded state.
(c) They cannot be trusted.
(d) They are too needed on the plantation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” the speaker says, although the slaves are now free, they are not really free, because they do what?

2. What does the speaker in "The Angels" hope some angels are?

3. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” an actor describes how they were given paper to draw what?

4. In "Deadly," what two creatures are discussed?

5. In "Beatific," the speaker watches a bow-legged man in black sweatpants slowly do what?

(see the answer key)

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