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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," Stanza 4, the speaker and others, known as ‘we,’ want to do what?
(a) Flee.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Something about all that has happened.
(d) Forgive those who have sinned against them.

2. In "Ash," the speaker says the house that is made of skin and bones does not believe what?
(a) It is made of skin and bones.
(b) That it is a house.
(c) It has feelings.
(d) It is human.

3. In “Eternity, Nanluoguxiang Alley," the speaker is looking for the face of whom amid the faces of others?
(a) Her neighbors.
(b) Her dead relatives.
(c) Her friends.
(d) Herself and her family.

4. In "Hill Country," the speaker describes someone as he travels where?
(a) To the river from a high peak.
(b) Down from high above in the hills and the place where he is surrounded by peace and quiet.
(c) Down from a high bridge to still water.
(d) To the mountains from the city.

5. In "Realm of Shades," what does the speaker wonder when she thinks about our shadows on the ground?
(a) How many shadows have passed this way?
(b) Where do shadows come from?
(c) What hides in the shadows?
(d) How much more will we bury in the earth?

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In “Unrest in Baton Rouge,” how is love described?

3. In “Political Poem,” the work of these engines takes forever, and the speaker thinks of how he or she would love what?

4. In "The Angels," who does the speaker say spoke to angels as she was dying?

5. 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?

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