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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In "The Greatest Personal Privation," Stanza 4, the speaker and others, known as ‘we,’ want to do what?
(a) Something about all that has happened.
(b) Flee.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Forgive those who have sinned against them.

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?
(a) To show the reader how educated the Civil War soldiers were.
(b) To show the reader how many left slavery to fight in the Civil War.
(c) To show the reader the various reasons why colored Civil War soldiers were asking for their pensions.
(d) To show the reader how polite the Civil War soldiers were.

4. 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) Stealing money from a bank or precious jewels from a safe.
(d) Working in the fields and stripping the stalks of stolen crops.

5. Who is the character in "Hill Country" revealed to be?
(a) A woodsman.
(b) God.
(c) An angel.
(d) Abraham.

6. 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?
(a) Equal treatment.
(b) Higher ranking.
(c) More money.
(d) Freedom from slavery and the Army.

7. Why are sentences left incomplete in "Declaration"?
(a) To show the confusion of the speaker.
(b) To confuse the reader.
(c) To reveal how the lives of the characters are incomplete.
(d) To leave it to the reader to fill in the blank of what has been stolen or destroyed.

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

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

10. 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 cannot be trusted.
(c) They could not survive among free society.
(d) They are in a degraded state.

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

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

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

14. The character in "Hill Country" climbs back into the jeep and drives off back to where?
(a) Nowhere.
(b) Everywhere.
(c) The hill.
(d) Heaven.

15. The character in "Hill Country" comes down the road in his jeep with the windows rolled down. Why?
(a) So he can air out his smelly jeep.
(b) So he can call out the windows to passersby.
(c) So he can smell the fresh air.
(d) So he can feel the branches as they brush against the vehicle and himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What will the other character do as you discover what each light, line, and shadow is in "A Man's World"?

3. Why does the woman make such a strong plea at the beginning of ”I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It”?

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

5. In "Hill Country," the speaker describes someone as he travels where?

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