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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 “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” why does a brother write a sister in a letter asking her to care for his child?
(a) His wife is living with another man while he is away.
(b) His wife is abusive and unfit to be a mother.
(c) His wife is ill and unable to care for their child.
(d) His wife is dying.

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

3. In “Unwritten,” how does the slave feel towards her mistress?
(a) She hates her passionately.
(b) She cannot wait to be freed and away from her mistress.
(c) She does not feel sorry for her and her privation.
(d) She does not wish her mistress to suffer.

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?
(a) How much she loved the Garden of Eden.
(b) How little she had in her bank account.
(c) The known sun was setting on the dawning century.
(d) How little food she had purchased.

5. When a holy person, as mentioned in "Deadly," imagines trembling, what is trembling in fear?
(a) The entire natural world.
(b) God.
(c) Man.
(d) The tiger.

Short Answer Questions

1. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” for what are they willing to sacrifice themselves and their families?

2. As the angels speak, the speaker dares to look at them and sees what?

3. How is love described as pain, when singing "Wade in the Water"?

4. The character in "Hill Country" climbs back into the jeep and drives off back to where?

5. How does "Wade in the Water" end?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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 are the characters described as speaking to each other in "Driving to Ottawa"? To what is this compared?

7. How does the poem "Unwritten" begin?

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

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

10. In "Declaration," what have officers been sent to do?

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