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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "An Old Story," the speaker says that they were told what would be horrible?
(a) The love for others.
(b) The end of life.
(c) The watching of youth fade away.
(d) The wanting, need, and strong hate.

2. In Stanza 5 of "The Greatest Personal Privation," what happened time and time again?
(a) Slaves were freed from bondage.
(b) Families were cut apart quickly and without warning.
(c) Male slaves were regularly sold.
(d) Slave owners freed their slaves.

3. In “The United States Welcomes You,” the speaker asks if the person is there in regard to whom?
(a) Family members.
(b) Rumors they have heard.
(c) Living a better life.
(d) Others that have been mistreated.

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

5. In “Eternity, Songzhuang Art Village," the speakers sees a photograph of a picture of who, looking off to what once must have seemed the future?
(a) Prokofiev.
(b) Dostoevsky.
(c) Tolstoy.
(d) Tchaikovsky.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does "Ghazal" end?

2. After the Civil War, for what did many Black soldiers struggle to receive from the U.S. government?

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

4. In “Political Poem,” the work of these engines takes forever, and the speaker thinks of how he or she would love what?

5. In “New Road Station,” what is history?

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