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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are the angels described in "The Angels"?
(a) Much like most of humanity.
(b) White and glittering.
(c) Grizzled and in leather bike gear.
(d) Poor and in rags.

2. In “Watershed,” In italics, the speaker who is floating over the city describes everything glowing and bands of what were being dispersed from a huge universal heartbeat?
(a) Light.
(b) Sound.
(c) Heat.
(d) Energy.

3. In "Deadly," what two creatures are discussed?
(a) A tiger and man.
(b) Man and woman.
(c) A vulture and a buzzard.
(d) A tiger and a lion.

4. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” the women crouch down around the man and tell him what?
(a) They will not rest until his kind is dead.
(b) He should be sorry.
(c) They forgive him.
(d) The only way this country’s going to turn around is – it will be a bloodbath.

5. A comparison is made in "The Everlasting Self" of an old love to what?
(a) Mud a dog has tracked in.
(b) Fine threads in a coat.
(c) An aging barn.
(d) Old photographs.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "4 ½," like what animal pulling at its tether and scraping its horns against a rock, does the little girl emphasize what exactly she wants?

2. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” to whom does a slave write, asking him if he is now legally free?

3. “I Will Tell You the Truth about This, I Will Tell You All” is comprised entirely of what?

4. History in "Ghazal" is described as a ship that is always setting sail where the men on either shore do what?

5. In “Political Poem,” the speaker talks about what kind of understanding in the work of these mowers?

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