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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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”?
(a) He has no home for them to stay in.
(b) One of his children is very sick.
(c) His wife is ill and cannot care for the children.
(d) He wants them to stay near him at the camp.

2. 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) Abundance and Charity.
(b) God and Country.
(c) Freedom and Humanity.
(d) Independence and Hope.

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 "The Angels," who does the speaker say spoke to angels as she was dying?
(a) Her sister.
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her mother.

5. 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 does not feel sorry for her and her privation.
(d) She cannot wait to be freed and away from her mistress.

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

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

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

9. 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 are too needed on the plantation.
(b) They are in a degraded state.
(c) They could not survive among free society.
(d) They cannot be trusted.

10. After the Civil War, for what did many Black soldiers struggle to receive from the U.S. government?
(a) A military pension.
(b) Health insurance.
(c) Housing.
(d) Jobs.

11. In "Declaration," an unnamed ‘he’ has sent officers to do what?
(a) Sign a document.
(b) Arrest the thieves.
(c) Harass our people.
(d) Declare peace.

12. 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?
(a) President Lincoln.
(b) His state senator.
(c) His mother.
(d) His owner.

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

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

15. How is love described as pain, when singing "Wade in the Water"?
(a) Having to take a bath when you would rather still be out playing.
(b) Feeling the pain of those who were forced to wade in the water.
(c) Allowing one to feel what it was to run away, being chased by dogs and guns, and so many not surviving the escape.
(d) Loving one's first swim lessons.

Short Answer Questions

1. There was love in the water, where the people pretended to do what?

2. The character in "Hill Country" passes what injured animal?

3. In "A Man's World," when the world is shown, to what is it compared?

4. How does the poem "Unwritten" begin?

5. 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?

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