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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. 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.

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

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

4. Of what do the memories of this "Garden of Eden" remind the speaker?
(a) College life.
(b) Her childhood.
(c) Her family.
(d) Brooklyn and being in her thirties.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are sentences left incomplete in "Declaration"?

2. 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”?

3. 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”?

4. After driving for awhile, the character in "Hill Country" gets out and walks along a limestone bank, noticing what?

5. What causes the speaker in "Wade in the Water" painful grief?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the angels in "The Angels" described?

2. From where does the character in "Hill Country" come?

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

4. What is the understanding of work for the characters in "Realm of Shades"?

5. In "Declaration," what have officers been sent to do?

6. How does the poem "Unwritten" begin?

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

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

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

10. How is the destruction of the world compared to a sister who is abused in "The World is Your Beautiful Younger Sister"?

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