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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is love described as pain, when singing "Wade in the Water"?
(a) Loving one's first swim lessons.
(b) Having to take a bath when you would rather still be out playing.
(c) Allowing one to feel what it was to run away, being chased by dogs and guns, and so many not surviving the escape.
(d) Feeling the pain of those who were forced to wade in the water.

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

3. How does "Wade in the Water" end?
(a) With a bath.
(b) With a question – Is this love the trouble you promised?
(c) With the speaker going for a swim.
(d) With the speaker being baptized.

4. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” why does a brother write a sister in a letter asking her to care for his child?
(a) His wife is abusive and unfit to be a mother.
(b) His wife is dying.
(c) His wife is ill and unable to care for their child.
(d) His wife is living with another man while he is away.

5. 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) $10,000.
(c) $1,000.
(d) $200.

Short Answer 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”?

2. 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?

3. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” to whom does a slave write, asking him if he is now legally free?

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

5. There was love in the water, where the people pretended to do what?

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