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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are sentences left incomplete in "Declaration"?
(a) To show the confusion of the speaker.
(b) To confuse the reader.
(c) To reveal how the lives of the characters are incomplete.
(d) To leave it to the reader to fill in the blank of what has been stolen or destroyed.

2. The character in "Hill Country" leaves the stack of worn planks outside where?
(a) A cabin.
(b) Ancient ruins.
(c) A castle.
(d) A barn.

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

4. What will the other character do as you discover what each light, line, and shadow is in "A Man's World"?
(a) He will leave you in peace.
(b) He will chuckle.
(c) He will watch you.
(d) He will wink at you.

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

6. 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”?
(a) To have her husband's pension sent to her.
(b) To have her husband released from the army.
(c) To have her son return home in one piece at the end of the war.
(d) To have her son released from the army,

7. The speaker of "The Greatest Personal Privation" says in Stanza 1 it is terrible belonging to this woman. Why?
(a) Their owners will not sell them to others.
(b) This woman forces them to work in the fields.
(c) Their owners cannot be trusts, because they have the power to destroy the whole family.
(d) This woman is abusive and does not care for anyone but herself.

8. How does "Wade in the Water" end?
(a) With the speaker being baptized.
(b) With a bath.
(c) With a question – Is this love the trouble you promised?
(d) With the speaker going for a swim.

9. For what does the speaker in “Unwritten” feel that Mary and all others like her must answer?
(a) Not paying their slaves an honest wage.
(b) What they think of slaves and their capabilities.
(c) What they have done to the people they have enslaved and mistreated so terribly.
(d) Freeing their slaves so quickly with no financial support.

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

11. Why does the woman at the beginning of “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It” say the president will be blessed?
(a) He truly cares about all of his citizens.
(b) He is a saint among men.
(c) He is a white man of priviledge.
(d) He cares for the poor.

12. In "The World is Your Beautiful Younger Sister," the world is compared to what?
(a) A young gazelle.
(b) A young, innocent woman taken advantage of by rough men.
(c) A locket on a chain.
(d) A wilde, savage place.

13. As the angels speak, the speaker dares to look at them and sees what?
(a) Both are smiling with brilliant white teeth.
(b) One has teeth worn down to almost nothing.
(c) One has a halo.
(d) Both have long, flowing hair.

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

15. When a holy person, as mentioned in "Deadly," imagines trembling, what is trembling in fear?
(a) The tiger.
(b) The entire natural world.
(c) Man.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What causes the speaker in "Wade in the Water" painful grief?

3. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” why does a brother write a sister in a letter asking her to care for his child?

4. The character in "Hill Country" comes down the road in his jeep with the windows rolled down. Why?

5. 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?

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