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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Dusk," although the speaker sits at the same table with her daughter, what is clear?
(a) Her daughter is not interested in being with her mother.
(b) Her daughter cannot hear her.
(c) Her daughter is busy doing homework.
(d) She wishes she were elsewhere.

2. In "Refuge," the speaker imagines a teen girl in a camp in what country?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Turkey.
(c) Bangladesh.
(d) Hungary.

3. In "The Angels," who does the speaker say spoke to angels as she was dying?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her mother.

4. How does "Ghazal" end?
(a) Our name our name our name our fraught, fraught name.
(b) Say my name! Say my name!
(c) What is in a name?
(d) Oh what a beautiful thing it is to have a name.

5. In "Beatific," the man jogs but, nevertheless, still moves slowly possibly thinking that those cars waiting for him see him how?
(a) An annoying old man.
(b) As Lithe, Swift, Prince of Creation.
(c) A nuissance.
(d) A crossing guard.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In "4 ½," the speaker describes a little girl who is either found asleep with her stuffed animals in the morning or doing what?

3. In “Watershed,” the speaker in italics feels him or herself being pulled up through what?

4. Why does the woman at the beginning of “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It” say the president will be blessed?

5. In "Ash," the speaker describes a house that must constantly be replenished and repaired, a house that does what?

(see the answer key)

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