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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 locket on a chain.
(d) A young, innocent woman taken advantage of by rough men.

3. History in "Ghazal" is described as a ship that is always setting sail where the men on either shore do what?
(a) Destroy everything that is not our name.
(b) Call us names.
(c) Tease us about our name.
(d) Fight over our name.

4. In "Realm of Shades," those described in this poem are focused on what?
(a) Their work.
(b) Running away.
(c) Finding a place to hide.
(d) A cool, dry home.

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) The abuse of power.
(c) Slavery.
(d) The plantation life.

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

7. In "A Man's World," when the world is shown, to what is it compared?
(a) A locket on a chain.
(b) A ball of energy.
(c) A globe.
(d) A pocket watch.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. What is the reason Mary gives for why it would not be in the best interest of the slaves to be set free?
(a) They cannot be trusted.
(b) They could not survive among free society.
(c) They are in a degraded state.
(d) They are too needed on the plantation.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How does "Ghazal" end?

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

4. Why are sentences left incomplete in "Declaration"?

5. The speaker of "Deadly" says that those who are holy imagine a strong beast that attacks and kills what?

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