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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In “Watershed,” the speaker in italics feels him or herself being pulled up through what?
(a) The many floors of the hospital up to the sky.
(b) The ground.
(c) The center of the earth.
(d) The attic.

3. In “Watershed,” it is revealed that the company decided against what, and chose to pay a low-level employee for inexpensive land for a landfill?
(a) Fixing their current landfills.
(b) Telling the truth about the leak.
(c) Changing to a less toxic chemical.
(d) Dumping the chemicals into the ocean.

4. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” the women go from fear to what?
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Loneliness.
(c) Love.
(d) Hatred.

5. 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?
(a) They do not know what their legal names are, as they go by something else.
(b) They are not trusted to be the person deserving a pension.
(c) They can steal pensions from other soldiers.
(d) They do not know how to spell their names to request their pensions.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what does the speaker in “Unwritten” feel that Mary and all others like her must answer?

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

3. In “Watershed,” the speaker finishes in italics saying that, for him, God is what?

4. How are the angels described in "The Angels"?

5. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” a man who was able to free himself and his wife asked in the letter for what to happen?

(see the answer key)

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