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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "The Angels," who does the speaker say spoke to angels as she was dying?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) Her sister.

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

3. The speaker remembers angels once in a hotel room. Why were they there?
(a) To take to her heaven.
(b) To pass on a message to her.
(c) To observe her.
(d) To scare her.

4. Who does the speaker in "Ghazal" say has been taught their name?
(a) No one.
(b) The chosen few.
(c) Many.
(d) Everyone.

5. In "Garden of Eden," what does the narrator greatly miss?
(a) The city.
(b) Her college friends.
(c) Her brownstone in Brooklyn.
(d) The Garden of Eden on Montague Street.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT a reason why not being able to read or write hinders the paying of a pension deserved to former black Civil War soldiers?

2. How is love described as pain, when singing "Wade in the Water"?

3. In "Garden of Eden," why does the narrator's arm get sore?

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

5. In "Realm of Shades," those described in this poem are focused on what?

(see the answer key)

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