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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In “New Road Station,” the speaker says that history is not what?
(a) What the Western world teaches.
(b) The slow tick of a clock.
(c) A crowd forming in a square chanting “no and now.”
(d) What is written in history books.

2. The speaker of "The Greatest Personal Privation" says they do not want those who are descendants of the people sold as property to know their history. Why?
(a) They are not smart enough to understand.
(b) Slavery is a lie and never happened.
(c) They do not want anyone else to know their sins.
(d) It is for their own good.

3. What is the reason Mary gives for why it would not be in the best interest of the slaves to be set free?
(a) They cannot be trusted.
(b) They are too needed on the plantation.
(c) They could not survive among free society.
(d) They are in a degraded state.

4. After driving for awhile, the character in "Hill Country" gets out and walks along a limestone bank, noticing what?
(a) The nature and wildlife around him.
(b) There is no one there.
(c) How the bank is eroding.
(d) The steepness of its incline.

5. Of what do the memories of this "Garden of Eden" remind the speaker?
(a) Her family.
(b) Brooklyn and being in her thirties.
(c) College life.
(d) Her childhood.

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 “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” why does a wife ask her husband to send for her?

3. In “The United States Welcomes You,” the speaker asks if the person is there in regard to whom?

4. 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?

5. In Stanza 3 of "The Greatest Personal Privation," the speaker says that the entire country may not be able to heal from what?

(see the answer key)

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