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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. What causes the speaker in "Wade in the Water" painful grief?
(a) The woman going to each stranger saying, "I love you" and meaning it.
(b) The people in chains.
(c) The fear in everyone's eyes.
(d) The river in which people wade.

2. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” a slave asks President Lincoln advise on how to leave his mistress. Why?
(a) He does not want to offend his mistress.
(b) His mistress refuses to let him go.
(c) He does not have the means to leave.
(d) He feels guilty leaving his mistress.

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”?
(a) They will be shot.
(b) They will be sent away.
(c) They will be sent to jail.
(d) They will allowed to stay and rest.

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

5. In "Realm of Shades," what does the speaker wonder when she thinks about our shadows on the ground?
(a) How many shadows have passed this way?
(b) What hides in the shadows?
(c) How much more will we bury in the earth?
(d) Where do shadows come from?

Short Answer Questions

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

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. In "Garden of Eden," what does the narrator greatly miss?

4. Has the narrator of "The Angels" had other angel encounters?

5. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” why does a wife ask her husband to send for her?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the poet say about age in "I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It"?

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

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

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

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

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

8. Where is the Garden of Eden located, and what does the narrator enjoy about it?

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

10. What is the reason given in "I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It" for why the men have difficulty receiving their pensions?

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