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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) They have not served long enough to receive pensions.
(c) The legal names of these men do not always match their actual names.
(d) They are not citizens of the U.S.

3. In "Realm of Shades," what does the speaker wonder when she thinks about our shadows on the ground?
(a) How many shadows have passed this way?
(b) What hides in the shadows?
(c) How much more will we bury in the earth?
(d) Where do shadows come from?

4. 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) Freedom from slavery and the Army.
(b) More money.
(c) Higher ranking.
(d) Equal treatment.

5. In Stanza 3 of "The Greatest Personal Privation," the speaker says that the entire country may not be able to heal from what?
(a) This separation of parent and child.
(b) Slavery.
(c) The abuse of power.
(d) The plantation life.

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

7. What does the character in "Hill Country" stave off in regard to the injured animal?
(a) Death.
(b) Further injury.
(c) Attack by vultures.
(d) Fear.

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

9. The speaker remembers angels once in a hotel room. Why were they there?
(a) To take to her heaven.
(b) To pass on a message to her.
(c) To observe her.
(d) To scare her.

10. The character in "Hill Country" comes down the road in his jeep with the windows rolled down. Why?
(a) So he can call out the windows to passersby.
(b) So he can smell the fresh air.
(c) So he can air out his smelly jeep.
(d) So he can feel the branches as they brush against the vehicle and himself.

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

12. There was love in the water, where the people pretended to do what?
(a) Wade.
(b) Swim.
(c) Get baptized.
(d) Bathe.

13. The character in "Hill Country" passes what injured animal?
(a) A skunk.
(b) A cat.
(c) A deer.
(d) A dog.

14. In "Garden of Eden," why does the narrator's arm get sore?
(a) From working out at the gym.
(b) From carrying a basket full of pastries and produce.
(c) From playing on a jungle gym.
(d) From flagging down a taxi.

15. 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?
(a) She is unable to leave her mistress.
(b) She does not have the money to get to him.
(c) She is still a slave.
(d) She does not know where he is.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In "Declaration," the people have reminded those in power of how they came to live in this nation, taken captive where?

3. As the speaker in "The Angels" slept, she feels what sense?

4. 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?

5. How does “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It” begin?

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