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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In “Watershed,” what does the speaker first describe?
(a) The landfill.
(b) J's life.
(c) Beautiful water.
(d) Land and cattle.

2. In "Garden of Eden," the speaker reflects on the fact that everyone she knew at the time was living a similar life that included hating what two things?
(a) Innocence and privacy.
(b) Abundance and charity.
(c) Urban living and crowds.
(d) Dirty public transportation and being poor.

3. Why does the father plead to not have his family removed from the camp in “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It”?
(a) He wants them to stay near him at the camp.
(b) His wife is ill and cannot care for the children.
(c) One of his children is very sick.
(d) He has no home for them to stay in.

4. In "Annunciation," the speaker wants to experience what is real – “the cold, the pitiless, the bleak,” nature, or her son, who is forever turned where?
(a) Inward to his own story.
(b) Inward to the voices in his head.
(c) Inward to his own thoughts and ideas.
(d) Inward to some music only he has ever heard.

5. When the speaker of "The Angels" reflects on what it must be like to be an angel, about what does she think?
(a) What they must go through to continually come earth side to encourage us to not have fear.
(b) How simple their lives must be.
(c) What is must be like flying between heaven and earth.
(d) What it must be like working for God.

Short Answer Questions

1. In “Watershed,” soon after the sale of land, what happened?

2. In "Refuge," the narrator imagines what it must have been like to do what, as she imagines her mother and her hardships in Alabama?

3. In “Unwritten,” how does the slave feel towards her mistress?

4. In "Charity," the speaker describes an elderly woman as she does what?

5. In “The United States Welcomes You,” the speaker questions the color of what?

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