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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the woman make such a strong plea at the beginning of ”I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It”?
(a) Her son is dying, and she wants her husband there with him.
(b) She is dying and wants her family around her.
(c) Her husband is dead, and she is dying.
(d) Her husband has died, and she is in need.

2. In "Declaration," the people have reminded those in power of how they came to live in this nation, taken captive where?
(a) On the high seas.
(b) From their native lands.
(c) In the cotton fields.
(d) In the wild west.

3. As the angels speak, the speaker dares to look at them and sees what?
(a) Both have long, flowing hair.
(b) Both are smiling with brilliant white teeth.
(c) One has teeth worn down to almost nothing.
(d) One has a halo.

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

5. In "The Greatest Personal Privation," Stanza 4, the speaker and others, known as ‘we,’ want to do what?
(a) Forgive those who have sinned against them.
(b) Something about all that has happened.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Flee.

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

3. When the speaker of "The Angels" reflects on what it must be like to be an angel, about what does she think?

4. What happens to the sick child who was removed from the camp with his family in “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It”?

5. In "The Angels," the speaker imagines what between the two angels, as she sleeps?

(see the answer key)

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