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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the character in "Hill Country" stave off in regard to the injured animal?
(a) Further injury.
(b) Fear.
(c) Death.
(d) Attack by vultures.

3. 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) Through regularly selling off male slaves.
(c) By the ending of slavery.
(d) By the spreading of lies through famiies.

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

5. 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.

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

7. 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) Forgive those who have sinned against them.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Flee.

8. How does “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It” begin?
(a) With a letter to Abraham Lincoln from a woman in Carlisle, PA.
(b) With a letter from a wife to her husband.
(c) With a letter from a woman to her slave owner.
(d) With a letter from a mother to her son.

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

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

11. In "Garden of Eden," what does the narrator greatly miss?
(a) Her college friends.
(b) Her brownstone in Brooklyn.
(c) The city.
(d) The Garden of Eden on Montague Street.

12. For what does the speaker in “Unwritten” feel that Mary and all others like her must answer?
(a) What they have done to the people they have enslaved and mistreated so terribly.
(b) Not paying their slaves an honest wage.
(c) What they think of slaves and their capabilities.
(d) Freeing their slaves so quickly with no financial support.

13. In "The Greatest Personal Privation," what does Mary Jones think is the greatest personal privation?
(a) Not having a new dress every season.
(b) Having to sell her slaves to others.
(c) Having to leave her home and move north.
(d) Not having her two slaves, Patience and Phoebe.

14. 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 do not know what their legal names are, as they go by something else.
(b) They can steal pensions from other soldiers.
(c) They are not trusted to be the person deserving a pension.
(d) They do not know how to spell their names to request their pensions.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the speaker of "The Angels" reflects on what it must be like to be an angel, about what does she think?

2. History in "Ghazal" is described as a ship that is always setting sail where the men on either shore do what?

3. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” a man who was able to free himself and his wife asked in the letter for what to happen?

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

5. When a holy person, as mentioned in "Deadly," imagines trembling, what is trembling in fear?

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