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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The speaker of "Deadly" says that those who are holy imagine a strong beast that attacks and kills what?
(a) A giraffe.
(b) A human.
(c) A gazelle.
(d) A tiger.

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

3. How does "Ghazal" end?
(a) Oh what a beautiful thing it is to have a name.
(b) Say my name! Say my name!
(c) What is in a name?
(d) Our name our name our name our fraught, fraught name.

4. In "The Greatest Personal Privation," if these people turn out to be evil, then the speaker and others like her will meet this evil how?
(a) With peace.
(b) With even more evil.
(c) By fleeing to Canada.
(d) As best they can.

5. Why does the father plead to not have his family removed from the camp in “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It”?
(a) He has no home for them to stay in.
(b) One of his children is very sick.
(c) His wife is ill and cannot care for the children.
(d) He wants them to stay near him at the camp.

6. 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?
(a) His state senator.
(b) His mother.
(c) His owner.
(d) President Lincoln.

7. In "A Man's World," when the world is shown, to what is it compared?
(a) A globe.
(b) A locket on a chain.
(c) A pocket watch.
(d) A ball of energy.

8. In "Garden of Eden," the speaker reflects on the fact that everyone she knew at the time was living a similar life that included hating what two things?
(a) Urban living and crowds.
(b) Abundance and charity.
(c) Innocence and privacy.
(d) Dirty public transportation and being poor.

9. What is an issue with the pensions of the black Civil War soldiers?
(a) They are still slaves and do not need to be paid.
(b) The legal names of these men do not always match their actual names.
(c) They are not citizens of the U.S.
(d) They have not served long enough to receive pensions.

10. As the speaker in "The Angels" slept, she feels what sense?
(a) Panic and anxiety.
(b) Warmth and comfort.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Love and safety.

11. The speaker of "The Greatest Personal Privation" says they do not want those who are descendants of the people sold as property to know their history. Why?
(a) They are not smart enough to understand.
(b) It is for their own good.
(c) They do not want anyone else to know their sins.
(d) Slavery is a lie and never happened.

12. In "Ghazal," to what does the speaker compare to the stealing of someone’s name?
(a) Attacking and robbing someone at gunpoint.
(b) Working in the fields and stripping the stalks of stolen crops.
(c) Pickpocketing a naive tourist.
(d) Stealing money from a bank or precious jewels from a safe.

13. The character in "Hill Country" climbs back into the jeep and drives off back to where?
(a) Nowhere.
(b) Heaven.
(c) Everywhere.
(d) The hill.

14. How does “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It” begin?
(a) With a letter from a mother to her son.
(b) With a letter from a woman to her slave owner.
(c) With a letter from a wife to her husband.
(d) With a letter to Abraham Lincoln from a woman in Carlisle, PA.

15. In "Hill Country," the speaker describes someone as he travels where?
(a) To the river from a high peak.
(b) To the mountains from the city.
(c) Down from high above in the hills and the place where he is surrounded by peace and quiet.
(d) Down from a high bridge to still water.

Short Answer Questions

1. After driving for awhile, the character in "Hill Country" gets out and walks along a limestone bank, noticing what?

2. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” there is a collection of addresses to various people. What is the purpose of this collection?

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

4. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” why does a wife ask her husband to send for her?

5. What will happen to those, including women and children, who do not follow the orders to leave camp in “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It”?

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