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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,” how much money did a man say he raised to free himself and his wife?
(a) $2,000.
(b) $1,000.
(c) $10,000.
(d) $200.

2. The speaker of "The Greatest Personal Privation" says in Stanza 1 it is terrible belonging to this woman. Why?
(a) Their owners will not sell them to others.
(b) This woman forces them to work in the fields.
(c) Their owners cannot be trusts, because they have the power to destroy the whole family.
(d) This woman is abusive and does not care for anyone but herself.

3. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” why does a wife ask her husband to send for her?
(a) She is still a slave.
(b) She does not have the money to get to him.
(c) She does not know where he is.
(d) She is unable to leave her mistress.

4. 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”?
(a) To have her husband released from the army.
(b) To have her son released from the army,
(c) To have her son return home in one piece at the end of the war.
(d) To have her husband's pension sent to her.

5. In “Unwritten,” how does the slave feel towards her mistress?
(a) She does not feel sorry for her and her privation.
(b) She does not wish her mistress to suffer.
(c) She hates her passionately.
(d) She cannot wait to be freed and away from her mistress.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the Civil War, for what did many Black soldiers struggle to receive from the U.S. government?

2. In "Hill Country," the speaker describes someone as he travels where?

3. For what does the speaker in “Unwritten” feel that Mary and all others like her must answer?

4. In "The Angels," who does the speaker say spoke to angels as she was dying?

5. In "Declaration," an unnamed ‘he’ has sent officers to do what?

(see the answer key)

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