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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Deadly," what two creatures are discussed?
(a) A tiger and man.
(b) A vulture and a buzzard.
(c) A tiger and a lion.
(d) Man and woman.

2. In “Eternity, Nanluoguxiang Alley" the speaker says that seeing these familiar faces of others makes the speaker believe what?
(a) We are all very closely related.
(b) We are not so different, after all.
(c) We are all human.
(d) All of us must be buried deep within each other.

3. The speaker of "The Greatest Personal Privation" is happy to live without these troubles of slavery and is what?
(a) Hoping to be freed soon.
(b) Willing to ask her owner to free her.
(c) At peace with God.
(d) Willing to run away.

4. In "In Your Condition," the speaker hikes up a hill to take photos, much like she did the year before, but only does it for what reason?
(a) To keep busy.
(b) To be polite.
(c) To keep up appearances.
(d) To prove she could do it.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In “Eternity, Songzhuang Art Village," the speakers sees a photograph of a picture of who, looking off to what once must have seemed the future?

2. 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?

3. After driving for awhile, the character in "Hill Country" gets out and walks along a limestone bank, noticing what?

4. How does “The United States Welcomes You” end?

5. In "The Angels," the speaker imagines what between the two angels, as she sleeps?

(see the answer key)

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