1. In "Refuge," the narrator imagines what it must have been like to do what, as she imagines her mother and her hardships in Alabama?
(a) Flee, bleed, to endure insults.
(b) Cry, struggle, and run.
(c) Fight, and fight, and fight.
(d) Run and hide.

2. After the Civil War, for what did many Black soldiers struggle to receive from the U.S. government?
(a) Jobs.
(b) Housing.
(c) Health insurance.
(d) A military pension.

3. In “Eternity, Songzhuang Art Village," the speaker describes pulling what out of art racks, as if they are spirits who are no longer in their bodies?
(a) Prints.
(b) Frames.
(c) Scrolls.
(d) Canvases.

4. What is NOT a reason why not being able to read or write hinders the paying of a pension deserved to former black Civil War soldiers?
(a) They do not know how to spell their names to request their pensions.
(b) They can steal pensions from other soldiers.
(c) They do not know what their legal names are, as they go by something else.
(d) They are not trusted to be the person deserving a pension.

5. In “Watershed,” In italics, the speaker who is floating over the city can move and do what?
(a) See clearly.
(b) Sail smoothly.
(c) Fly quickly.
(d) Think quickly.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In “Watershed,” what is a pipe dispensing?

3. How does "An Old Story" end?

4. In “Watershed,” in italics, the person floating is now in space seeing what as God must view it?

5. In "Refuge," the speaker imagines a teen girl in a camp in what country?

(see the answer key)

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