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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is an issue with the pensions of the black Civil War soldiers?
(a) They have not served long enough to receive pensions.
(b) They are still slaves and do not need to be paid.
(c) The legal names of these men do not always match their actual names.
(d) They are not citizens of the U.S.

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

4. 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?
(a) The receiver of the letter to write to Abraham Lincoln on his behalf.
(b) The receiver of the letter to find his family for him.
(c) The receiver of the letter to help free the rest of his family.
(d) The receiver of the letter to care for his wife while he searches for the rest of his family.

5. How does the poem "Unwritten" begin?
(a) With a letter from a slave.
(b) With a letter from Mary Jones to her slaves.
(c) With a letter from President Lincoln.
(d) With a letter from Mary Jones to Charles Colcock Jones.

Short Answer Questions

1. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” a slave asks President Lincoln advise on how to leave his mistress. Why?

2. What does the character in "Hill Country" stave off in regard to the injured animal?

3. Of what do the memories of this "Garden of Eden" remind the speaker?

4. Stanza 5 of "The Greatest Personal Privation" tells of the families destroyed how?

5. The character in "Hill Country" can almost believe in what?

(see the answer key)

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