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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The character in "Hill Country" passes what injured animal?

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

3. The character in "Hill Country" can almost believe in what?

4. In "Garden of Eden," the speaker would walk home doing mental math on how much she had spent and what would suddenly hit her?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. After the letters in "I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It," what does the poet include?

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

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

5. Why does God in "Hill Country" roll down the windows of his jeep? What else does he do that is connected to this?

6. How does the poem "The Greatest Personal Privation" 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 poet say about age in "I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It"?

9. How is history like a ship, in "Ghazal"?

10. What are two of the circumstances in "Wade in the Water" in which the narrator describes feelings of love?

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