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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the speaker of "The Angels" reflects on what it must be like to be an angel, about what does she think?
(a) What is must be like flying between heaven and earth.
(b) What it must be like working for God.
(c) How simple their lives must be.
(d) What they must go through to continually come earth side to encourage us to not have fear.

2. 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.

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

4. In “Unwritten,” how does the slave feel towards her mistress?
(a) She does not wish her mistress to suffer.
(b) She hates her passionately.
(c) She cannot wait to be freed and away from her mistress.
(d) She does not feel sorry for her and her privation.

5. In "The Angels," the speaker imagines what between the two angels, as she sleeps?
(a) A candle.
(b) A meal.
(c) A deck of playing cards.
(d) A book.

6. After driving for awhile, the character in "Hill Country" gets out and walks along a limestone bank, noticing what?
(a) There is no one there.
(b) How the bank is eroding.
(c) The nature and wildlife around him.
(d) The steepness of its incline.

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

8. 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 cares for the poor.
(b) He is a saint among men.
(c) He is a white man of priviledge.
(d) He truly cares about all of his citizens.

9. 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) Innocence and privacy.
(b) Abundance and charity.
(c) Urban living and crowds.
(d) Dirty public transportation and being poor.

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

11. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” for what are they willing to sacrifice themselves and their families?
(a) Independence and Hope.
(b) Freedom and Humanity.
(c) God and Country.
(d) Abundance and Charity.

12. 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?
(a) Are freed from slavery and soon end up enslaved to educating themselves.
(b) Run out of slavery and out of the United States for Canada.
(c) Leave slavery and end up in bondage to their new bosses.
(d) Run right out of slavery In to soldiery.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does "Wade in the Water" end?

2. After the Civil War, for what did many Black soldiers struggle to receive from the U.S. government?

3. Stanza 5 of "The Greatest Personal Privation" tells of the families destroyed how?

4. In "Garden of Eden," the speaker would walk home doing mental math on how much she had spent and what would suddenly hit her?

5. 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?

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