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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Declaration," the people have reminded those in power of how they came to live in this nation, taken captive where?
(a) In the wild west.
(b) From their native lands.
(c) In the cotton fields.
(d) On the high seas.

2. 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) All of the men are not exactly sure of their age or do not know their age at all.
(b) Many know their exact birth dates.
(c) Many are not exactly sure of their age or do not know their age at all.
(d) A few are not exactly sure of their age or do not know their age at all.

3. 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.

4. In "A Man’s World," the speaker says that someone will very likely show you a world when?
(a) You are not paying attention.
(b) You are alone.
(c) You are tired.
(d) You are scared.

5. Stanza 5 of "The Greatest Personal Privation" tells of the families destroyed how?
(a) Through regularly selling off male slaves.
(b) By the ending of slavery.
(c) By the spreading of lies through famiies.
(d) Through the selling off of all the parts that make up a family.

6. 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 wife to her husband.
(c) With a letter from a woman to her slave owner.
(d) With a letter to Abraham Lincoln from a woman in Carlisle, PA.

7. In "Garden of Eden," what does the narrator greatly miss?
(a) Her brownstone in Brooklyn.
(b) The Garden of Eden on Montague Street.
(c) The city.
(d) Her college friends.

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

9. 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) Stealing money from a bank or precious jewels from a safe.
(d) Pickpocketing a naive tourist.

10. In Stanza 5 of "The Greatest Personal Privation," what happened time and time again?
(a) Male slaves were regularly sold.
(b) Slaves were freed from bondage.
(c) Slave owners freed their slaves.
(d) Families were cut apart quickly and without warning.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

4. 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”?

5. How are the angels described in "The Angels"?

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