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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” a woman stands in fear as she remembers what?
(a) Being pulled and dragged.
(b) Getting a bad grade in a class.
(c) Being drowned.
(d) Being thrown off a cliff.

3. “New Road Station” begins by talking about what?
(a) The endlessness of history.
(b) The hurry that history is in.
(c) The slow progress of history.
(d) The love of history.

4. 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) As best they can.
(b) With peace.
(c) By fleeing to Canada.
(d) With even more evil.

5. In “Watershed,” D’s husband frequently came home sick, and she needed what?
(a) An emergency hysterectomy.
(b) Brain surgery.
(c) Chemotherapy.
(d) An emergency appendectomy.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Realm of Shades," those described in this poem are focused on what?

2. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” the women crouch down around the man and tell him what?

3. In "4 ½," when this little girl is hungry, what does she have?

4. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” a person says they were dragged and what else?

5. 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?

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