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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Notes and Acknowledgments.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. “Hill Country” was written for whom?
(a) Bill White.
(b) Michael Johnson.
(c) Bill Johnson.
(d) Bill Madison.

2. The speaker remembers angels once in a hotel room. Why were they there?
(a) To observe her.
(b) To take to her heaven.
(c) To pass on a message to her.
(d) To scare her.

3. What does the speaker in "The Angels" hope some angels are?
(a) Her friends.
(b) Grandparents.
(c) Children.
(d) Straight up thugs.

4. In “Watershed,” who was employed at the factory and subsequently sold land to the factory?
(a) D.
(b) M.
(c) R.
(d) J.

5. 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 are not trusted to be the person deserving a pension.
(b) They do not know how to spell their names to request their pensions.
(c) They can steal pensions from other soldiers.
(d) They do not know what their legal names are, as they go by something else.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Ash," the speaker says the house that is made of skin and bones does not believe what?

2. What will the other character do as you discover what each light, line, and shadow is in "A Man's World"?

3. In “Political Poem,” the speaker wonders what would happen if what happened?

4. In “Watershed,” what causes multiple deformities in animals and humans?

5. In "An Old Story," the speaker says that they were told what would be horrible?

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