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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) The bunny.
(b) The puppy.
(c) The goat.
(d) The cat.

2. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” a slave asks President Lincoln advise on how to leave his mistress. Why?
(a) He feels guilty leaving his mistress.
(b) He does not want to offend his mistress.
(c) His mistress refuses to let him go.
(d) He does not have the means to leave.

3. In "In Your Condition," the speaker drinks bottle after bottle of water but gazed longingly at what?
(a) Her bed.
(b) The bottles of red wine.
(c) Deli meat.
(d) The steep hill.

4. In "Garden of Eden," what does the narrator greatly miss?
(a) Her college friends.
(b) The city.
(c) The Garden of Eden on Montague Street.
(d) Her brownstone in Brooklyn.

5. In "Refuge," the narrator imagines what it must have been like to do what, as she imagines her mother and her hardships in Alabama?
(a) Cry, struggle, and run.
(b) Run and hide.
(c) Fight, and fight, and fight.
(d) Flee, bleed, to endure insults.

Short Answer Questions

1. The character in "Hill Country" climbs back into the jeep and drives off back to where?

2. 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?

3. In "Beatific," how do the drivers of the cars feel?

4. In "Realm of Shades," what does the speaker wonder when she thinks about our shadows on the ground?

5. In “New Road Station,” history is not the silence found where?

(see the answer key)

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