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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The character in "Hill Country" leaves the stack of worn planks outside where?
(a) A cabin.
(b) A castle.
(c) A barn.
(d) Ancient ruins.

2. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” a husband writes to his wife, encouraging her to bring herself and their children, including the baby he has never met, to him in what state?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Virginia.
(d) North Carolina.

3. In "Hill Country," the speaker describes someone as he travels where?
(a) Down from high above in the hills and the place where he is surrounded by peace and quiet.
(b) Down from a high bridge to still water.
(c) To the river from a high peak.
(d) To the mountains from the city.

4. How does "Ghazal" end?
(a) Oh what a beautiful thing it is to have a name.
(b) What is in a name?
(c) Our name our name our name our fraught, fraught name.
(d) Say my name! Say my name!

5. After the Civil War, for what did many Black soldiers struggle to receive from the U.S. government?
(a) Housing.
(b) Health insurance.
(c) Jobs.
(d) A military pension.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the character in "Hill Country" revealed to be?

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

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. Has the narrator of "The Angels" had other angel encounters?

5. For what does the woman plea at the beginning of ”I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It”?

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