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

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

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?
(a) The receiver of the letter to write to Abraham Lincoln on his behalf.
(b) The receiver of the letter to find his family for him.
(c) The receiver of the letter to help free the rest of his family.
(d) The receiver of the letter to care for his wife while he searches for the rest of his family.

4. After driving for awhile, the character in "Hill Country" gets out and walks along a limestone bank, noticing what?
(a) There is no one there.
(b) The steepness of its incline.
(c) How the bank is eroding.
(d) The nature and wildlife around him.

5. In "Declaration," the people have reminded those in power of how they came to live in this nation, taken captive where?
(a) On the high seas.
(b) In the wild west.
(c) In the cotton fields.
(d) From their native lands.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the sick child who was removed from the camp with his family in “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It”?

2. In "Ghazal," to what does the speaker compare to the stealing of someone’s name?

3. In "Hill Country," the speaker describes someone as he travels where?

4. In "Declaration," an unnamed ‘he’ has sent officers to do what?

5. 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”?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does the stranger say to the narrator in "Wade in the Water"? How does this affect the narrator?

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

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