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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” a husband writes to his wife, encouraging her to bring herself and their children, including the baby he has never met, to him in what state?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) North Carolina.

4. 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) His mistress refuses to let him go.
(b) He does not have the means to leave.
(c) He feels guilty leaving his mistress.
(d) He does not want to offend his mistress.

5. The character in "Hill Country" can almost believe in what?
(a) Humanity.
(b) Love.
(c) Something larger than himself.
(d) Escape.

6. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” what do the colored men in the military say they deserve?
(a) More money.
(b) Higher ranking.
(c) Freedom from slavery and the Army.
(d) Equal treatment.

7. What does the speaker in "The Angels" hope some angels are?
(a) Children.
(b) Grandparents.
(c) Straight up thugs.
(d) Her friends.

8. Has the narrator of "The Angels" had other angel encounters?
(a) No, never.
(b) Yes, regularly.
(c) Yes, rarely.
(d) Yes, sometimes.

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

10. Of what do the memories of this "Garden of Eden" remind the speaker?
(a) Her childhood.
(b) Brooklyn and being in her thirties.
(c) Her family.
(d) College life.

11. What happens to the sick child who was removed from the camp with his family in “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It”?
(a) He is ill but arrives at the family's new home safely.
(b) He dies, and his father buries him.
(c) He is treated by the Army physician and heals.
(d) He survives for a few more months.

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

13. In "Garden of Eden," the speaker would walk home doing mental math on how much she had spent and what would suddenly hit her?
(a) How little food she had purchased.
(b) The known sun was setting on the dawning century.
(c) How much she loved the Garden of Eden.
(d) How little she had in her bank account.

14. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” what is the general response in the list the responses of some when was asked their age?
(a) Many know their exact birth dates.
(b) All of the men are not exactly sure of their age or do not know their age at all.
(c) A few are not exactly sure of their age or do not know their age at all.
(d) Many are not exactly sure of their age or do not know their age at all.

15. 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 do not want anyone else to know their sins.
(b) They are not smart enough to understand.
(c) It is for their own good.
(d) Slavery is a lie and never happened.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The speaker remembers angels once in a hotel room. Why were they there?

3. The character in "Hill Country" leaves the stack of worn planks outside where?

4. For what does the woman plea at the beginning of ”I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It”?

5. In "A Man’s World," the speaker says that someone will very likely show you a world when?

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