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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "The Greatest Personal Privation," if these people turn out to be evil, then the speaker and others like her will meet this evil how?
(a) By fleeing to Canada.
(b) With even more evil.
(c) As best they can.
(d) With peace.

2. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” what is the general response in the list the responses of some when was asked their age?
(a) Many are not exactly sure of their age or do not know their age at all.
(b) All of the men are not exactly sure of their age or do not know their age at all.
(c) Many know their exact birth dates.
(d) A few are not exactly sure of their age or do not know their age at all.

3. Has the narrator of "The Angels" had other angel encounters?
(a) No, never.
(b) Yes, regularly.
(c) Yes, sometimes.
(d) Yes, rarely.

4. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” the man steps back and falls down. He then describes what?
(a) A time he used to care about others.
(b) A time he slept outside a station and was woken up by someone urinating on him; he was then beaten with a metal rod.
(c) His ill wife.
(d) A time he beat up a homeless man asleep at a train station.

5. In "Charity," the speaker describes an elderly woman as she does what?
(a) Walks unsteadily but determined.
(b) Shops at the grocery store.
(c) Tells someone's fortune.
(d) Asks for assistance.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In "The Greatest Personal Privation," Stanza 4, the speaker and others, known as ‘we,’ want to do what?

4. In "4 ½," like what animal pulling at its tether and scraping its horns against a rock, does the little girl emphasize what exactly she wants?

5. In "Annunciation," the speaker is ashamed of what?

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