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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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?
(a) His wife is living with another man while he is away.
(b) His wife is abusive and unfit to be a mother.
(c) His wife is ill and unable to care for their child.
(d) His wife is dying.

3. 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 woman to her slave owner.
(c) With a letter from a wife to her husband.
(d) With a letter from a mother to her son.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the character in "Hill Country" stave off in regard to the injured animal?

2. How does "Ghazal" end?

3. What is the reason Mary gives for why it would not be in the best interest of the slaves to be set free?

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

5. In "Deadly," what two creatures are discussed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the difference between the power of a tiger and the power of man, according to the narrator in the poem "Deadly"?

2. What takes place in the second letter of "I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It"?

3. What does the narrator notice about one of the angels? How does this bring her a sense of hope?

4. What memories does reflecting on the "Garden of Eden" bring up?

5. What does the narrator in "A Man's World" say will happen to someone who is shown the whole world?

6. In "Ghazal," to what does the narrator compare the working of the field?

7. In "The Greatest Personal Privation," what does the narrator say in Stanza 1?

8. How are the characters described as speaking to each other in "Driving to Ottawa"? To what is this compared?

9. How does "I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It" begin?

10. How does the poem "The Greatest Personal Privation" begin?

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