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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The speaker of "The Greatest Personal Privation" is happy to live without these troubles of slavery and is what?
(a) Willing to ask her owner to free her.
(b) Hoping to be freed soon.
(c) At peace with God.
(d) Willing to run away.

2. In "Garden of Eden," what does the narrator greatly miss?
(a) Her college friends.
(b) The city.
(c) Her brownstone in Brooklyn.
(d) The Garden of Eden on Montague Street.

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

4. How is love described as pain, when singing "Wade in the Water"?
(a) Having to take a bath when you would rather still be out playing.
(b) Feeling the pain of those who were forced to wade in the water.
(c) Loving one's first swim lessons.
(d) Allowing one to feel what it was to run away, being chased by dogs and guns, and so many not surviving the escape.

5. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” how much money did a man say he raised to free himself and his wife?
(a) $1,000.
(b) $2,000.
(c) $200.
(d) $10,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. “New Road Station” begins by talking about what?

2. For what does the speaker in “Unwritten” feel that Mary and all others like her must answer?

3. Has the narrator of "The Angels" had other angel encounters?

4. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” a person says that a woman pulled something from her head and told her what?

5. When a holy person, as mentioned in "Deadly," imagines trembling, what is trembling in fear?

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