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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Ghazal," to what does the speaker compare to the stealing of someone’s name?
(a) Pickpocketing a naive tourist.
(b) Attacking and robbing someone at gunpoint.
(c) Working in the fields and stripping the stalks of stolen crops.
(d) Stealing money from a bank or precious jewels from a safe.

2. How does “Unrest in Baton Rouge” begin?
(a) It describes the news reporters.
(b) It describes bodies dripping with blood.
(c) It describes the crowds.
(d) It describes the beautiful city of Baton Rouge.

3. In "The Angels," the speaker imagines what between the two angels, as she sleeps?
(a) A meal.
(b) A book.
(c) A deck of playing cards.
(d) A candle.

4. In “Watershed,” D’s husband frequently came home sick, and she needed what?
(a) An emergency hysterectomy.
(b) Chemotherapy.
(c) An emergency appendectomy.
(d) Brain surgery.

5. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” an actor describes how they were given paper to draw what?
(a) Their favorite animal.
(b) A map to their favorite place.
(c) The atrocities they experienced.
(d) Pictures of their families.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an issue with the pensions of the black Civil War soldiers?

2. 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”?

3. In “Political Poem,” the speaker talks about what kind of understanding in the work of these mowers?

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

5. The speaker of "The Greatest Personal Privation" says they do not want those who are descendants of the people sold as property to know their history. Why?

(see the answer key)

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