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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As the speaker in "The Angels" slept, she feels what sense?
(a) Love and safety.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Warmth and comfort.
(d) Panic and anxiety.

2. "Urban Youth" begins as the speaker remembers being woken up by an older sibling on Saturday mornings to do what?
(a) Watch cartoons.
(b) Play with toys.
(c) Go for a run.
(d) Ride bikes.

3. In “Watershed,” how is camera footage described?
(a) Bright, cheerful, and full of happy music.
(b) Filled with static and grainy with sounds that made it seem like a horror film.
(c) Clear and beautiful.
(d) Dark and hard to see.

4. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” a person says they were dragged and what else?
(a) Beaten.
(b) Jeered at.
(c) Choked.
(d) Burned.

5. History in "Ghazal" is described as a ship that is always setting sail where the men on either shore do what?
(a) Call us names.
(b) Destroy everything that is not our name.
(c) Fight over our name.
(d) Tease us about our name.

Short Answer Questions

1. “New Road Station” begins by talking about what?

2. In "Annunciation," the speaker wants to experience what is real – “the cold, the pitiless, the bleak,” nature, or her son, who is forever turned where?

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," if these people turn out to be evil, then the speaker and others like her will meet this evil how?

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?

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