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

2. In "The Greatest Personal Privation," what does Mary Jones think is the greatest personal privation?
(a) Not having a new dress every season.
(b) Not having her two slaves, Patience and Phoebe.
(c) Having to sell her slaves to others.
(d) Having to leave her home and move north.

3. After the Civil War, for what did many Black soldiers struggle to receive from the U.S. government?
(a) Housing.
(b) Jobs.
(c) Health insurance.
(d) A military pension.

4. In "Garden of Eden," what does the narrator greatly miss?
(a) Her brownstone in Brooklyn.
(b) The Garden of Eden on Montague Street.
(c) Her college friends.
(d) The city.

5. In "The Greatest Personal Privation," Stanza 4, the speaker and others, known as ‘we,’ want to do what?
(a) Forgive those who have sinned against them.
(b) Something about all that has happened.
(c) Flee.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Realm of Shades," those described in this poem are focused on what?

2. How does the poem "Unwritten" begin?

3. In "Declaration," the people have reminded those in power of how they came to live in this nation, taken captive where?

4. Why does the father plead to not have his family removed from the camp in “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It”?

5. For what does the woman plea at the beginning of ”I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It”?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the poem "Unwritten" begin?

3. In "The Greatest Personal Privation," what does the narrator say in Stanza 1?

4. What does the narrator in "The Angels" think about the role of the angel?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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