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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” a slave asks President Lincoln advise on how to leave his mistress. Why?
(a) He does not have the means to leave.
(b) He feels guilty leaving his mistress.
(c) His mistress refuses to let him go.
(d) He does not want to offend his mistress.

3. What is the main purpose of “I Will Tell You the Truth about This, I Will Tell You All?”
(a) To show the destruction of humanity during the Civil War.
(b) To show how the affects of the Civil War are still important today.
(c) To highlight the main factors affecting blacks during the Civil War.
(d) To give a new view of historical information.

4. In “Eternity,” the speaker asks what the soul is allowed to do?
(a) Remove.
(b) Travel.
(c) Destroy.
(d) Take with it.

5. After the Civil War, for what did many Black soldiers struggle to receive from the U.S. government?
(a) Jobs.
(b) A military pension.
(c) Housing.
(d) Health insurance.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Realm of Shades," what does the speaker wonder when she thinks about our shadows on the ground?

2. In "Annunciation," the speaker is ashamed of what?

3. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” a person says they were dragged and what else?

4. “I Will Tell You the Truth about This, I Will Tell You All” contains much of the original what?

5. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” the speaker says, although the slaves are now free, they are not really free, because they do what?

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