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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) Not paying their slaves an honest wage.
(b) What they think of slaves and their capabilities.
(c) Freeing their slaves so quickly with no financial support.
(d) What they have done to the people they have enslaved and mistreated so terribly.

2. The character in "Hill Country" comes down the road in his jeep with the windows rolled down. Why?
(a) So he can feel the branches as they brush against the vehicle and himself.
(b) So he can smell the fresh air.
(c) So he can call out the windows to passersby.
(d) So he can air out his smelly jeep.

3. What does the speaker in "Ghazal" ask regarding learning one’s name?
(a) What it will be like when those who have not known their name suddenly learn it.
(b) Whether or not that name matters.
(c) What the name will mean to them.
(d) What they will do with that name.

4. What is the reason Mary gives for why it would not be in the best interest of the slaves to be set free?
(a) They are in a degraded state.
(b) They are too needed on the plantation.
(c) They cannot be trusted.
(d) They could not survive among free society.

5. 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 allowed to stay and rest.
(c) They will be sent to jail.
(d) They will be sent away.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will the other character do as you discover what each light, line, and shadow is in "A Man's World"?

2. The speaker of "The Greatest Personal Privation" says in Stanza 1 it is terrible belonging to this woman. Why?

3. In "The Angels," the speaker imagines what between the two angels, as she sleeps?

4. Who does the speaker in "Ghazal" say has been taught their name?

5. Why does the woman at the beginning of “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It” say the president will be blessed?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

5. How have those who are attacked in "Declaration" respond? How do the attackers react?

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

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

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

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

10. How does the poem "Unwritten" begin?

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