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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the sick child who was removed from the camp with his family in “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It”?
(a) He is ill but arrives at the family's new home safely.
(b) He dies, and his father buries him.
(c) He is treated by the Army physician and heals.
(d) He survives for a few more months.

2. How are the angels described in "The Angels"?
(a) Grizzled and in leather bike gear.
(b) Much like most of humanity.
(c) White and glittering.
(d) Poor and in rags.

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

4. What will happen to those, including women and children, who do not follow the orders to leave camp in “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It”?
(a) They will be sent to jail.
(b) They will be sent away.
(c) They will allowed to stay and rest.
(d) They will be shot.

5. In "Ghazal," to what does the speaker compare to the stealing of someone’s name?
(a) Attacking and robbing someone at gunpoint.
(b) Pickpocketing a naive tourist.
(c) Working in the fields and stripping the stalks of stolen crops.
(d) Stealing money from a bank or precious jewels from a safe.

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

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

8. In "Deadly," what two creatures are discussed?
(a) A vulture and a buzzard.
(b) A tiger and a lion.
(c) Man and woman.
(d) A tiger and man.

9. What is NOT a reason why not being able to read or write hinders the paying of a pension deserved to former black Civil War soldiers?
(a) They are not trusted to be the person deserving a pension.
(b) They can steal pensions from other soldiers.
(c) They do not know how to spell their names to request their pensions.
(d) They do not know what their legal names are, as they go by something else.

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

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

12. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” how much money did a man say he raised to free himself and his wife?
(a) $10,000.
(b) $1,000.
(c) $200.
(d) $2,000.

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

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

15. How does "Wade in the Water" end?
(a) With the speaker going for a swim.
(b) With a bath.
(c) With the speaker being baptized.
(d) With a question – Is this love the trouble you promised?

Short Answer Questions

1. In Stanza 3 of "The Greatest Personal Privation," the speaker says that the entire country may not be able to heal from what?

2. In "The Greatest Personal Privation," what does Mary Jones think is the greatest personal privation?

3. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” there is a collection of addresses to various people. What is the purpose of this collection?

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

5. In "The Angels," the speaker imagines what between the two angels, as she sleeps?

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