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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As the angels speak, the speaker dares to look at them and sees what?
(a) Both have long, flowing hair.
(b) One has a halo.
(c) Both are smiling with brilliant white teeth.
(d) One has teeth worn down to almost nothing.

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

3. In "The Greatest Personal Privation," what does Mary Jones think is the greatest personal privation?
(a) Not having a new dress every season.
(b) Not having her two slaves, Patience and Phoebe.
(c) Having to sell her slaves to others.
(d) Having to leave her home and move north.

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

5. In “Watershed,” in italics, the person floating is now in space seeing what as God must view it?
(a) The world.
(b) Mankind.
(c) The galaxy.
(d) The sun.

Short Answer Questions

1. The sections in italics in “I Will Tell You the Truth about This, I Will Tell You All” are from what sources?

2. “Unrest in Baton Rouge,” is inspired by a photo by whom?

3. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” an actor describes how they were given paper to draw what?

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

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

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