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

2. What is NOT a reason why not being able to read or write hinders the paying of a pension deserved to former black Civil War soldiers?
(a) They can steal pensions from other soldiers.
(b) They do not know how to spell their names to request their pensions.
(c) They are not trusted to be the person deserving a pension.
(d) They do not know what their legal names are, as they go by something else.

3. 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?

4. What does the speaker in "The Angels" hope some angels are?
(a) Straight up thugs.
(b) Grandparents.
(c) Her friends.
(d) Children.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the speaker of "The Angels" reflects on what it must be like to be an angel, about what does she think?

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. How does "Ghazal" end?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. In "The Garden of Eden," what does the narrator remember doing after she finished her shopping?

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