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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the Civil War, for what did many Black soldiers struggle to receive from the U.S. government?
(a) Health insurance.
(b) Jobs.
(c) A military pension.
(d) Housing.

2. 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?
(a) His mother.
(b) President Lincoln.
(c) His owner.
(d) His state senator.

3. Why does the woman at the beginning of “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It” say the president will be blessed?
(a) He truly cares about all of his citizens.
(b) He cares for the poor.
(c) He is a saint among men.
(d) He is a white man of priviledge.

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

5. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” the speaker says, although the slaves are now free, they are not really free, because they do what?
(a) Run right out of slavery In to soldiery.
(b) Are freed from slavery and soon end up enslaved to educating themselves.
(c) Leave slavery and end up in bondage to their new bosses.
(d) Run out of slavery and out of the United States for Canada.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Garden of Eden," the speaker would walk home doing mental math on how much she had spent and what would suddenly hit her?

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

3. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” what does the audience begin to sense?

4. The character in "Hill Country" leaves the stack of worn planks outside where?

5. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” In the back of the house, one person begins to do what?

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