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

2. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” the speaker says, although the slaves are now free, they are not really free, because they do what?
(a) Run out of slavery and out of the United States for Canada.
(b) Are freed from slavery and soon end up enslaved to educating themselves.
(c) Leave slavery and end up in bondage to their new bosses.
(d) Run right out of slavery In to soldiery.

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

4. Has the narrator of "The Angels" had other angel encounters?
(a) Yes, sometimes.
(b) No, never.
(c) Yes, rarely.
(d) Yes, regularly.

5. In "The World is Your Beautiful Younger Sister," the world is compared to what?
(a) A wilde, savage place.
(b) A young, innocent woman taken advantage of by rough men.
(c) A locket on a chain.
(d) A young gazelle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an issue with the pensions of the black Civil War soldiers?

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

3. 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”?

4. In "A Man’s World," the speaker says that someone will very likely show you a world when?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

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