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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does “The United States Welcomes You” end?
(a) With the speaker asking about their cultural traditions.
(b) With the speaker asking them about their skill set.
(c) With a speaker asking if there are some sort of test that they must take and what if they fail.
(d) With the speaker telling them to leave.

2. "Urban Youth" begins as the speaker remembers being woken up by an older sibling on Saturday mornings to do what?
(a) Watch cartoons.
(b) Go for a run.
(c) Play with toys.
(d) Ride bikes.

3. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” what do the colored men in the military say they deserve?
(a) Freedom from slavery and the Army.
(b) Higher ranking.
(c) More money.
(d) Equal treatment.

4. In “Unrest in Baton Rouge,” how is love described?
(a) Bleeding out.
(b) An alien idea.
(c) A heart cut open and cleaned like a dead animal.
(d) A total loss.

5. What does the speaker in "The Angels" hope some angels are?
(a) Straight up thugs.
(b) Her friends.
(c) Children.
(d) Grandparents.

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker of "The Greatest Personal Privation" says in Stanza 1 it is terrible belonging to this woman. Why?

2. 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?

3. What is an issue with the pensions of the black Civil War soldiers?

4. What will happen to those, including women and children, who do not follow the orders to leave camp in “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It”?

5. Stanza 5 of "The Greatest Personal Privation" tells of the families destroyed how?

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