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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. 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”?
(a) Her husband has died, and she is in need.
(b) She is dying and wants her family around her.
(c) Her son is dying, and she wants her husband there with him.
(d) Her husband is dead, and she is dying.

2. In "A Man's World," when the world is shown, to what is it compared?
(a) A pocket watch.
(b) A locket on a chain.
(c) A globe.
(d) A ball of energy.

3. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” there is a collection of addresses to various people. What is the purpose of this collection?
(a) To show the reader how educated the Civil War soldiers were.
(b) To show the reader how polite the Civil War soldiers were.
(c) To show the reader the various reasons why colored Civil War soldiers were asking for their pensions.
(d) To show the reader how many left slavery to fight in the Civil War.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Greatest Personal Privation," what does Mary Jones think is the greatest personal privation?

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

3. In "Declaration," an unnamed ‘he’ has sent officers to do what?

4. There was love in the water, where the people pretended to do what?

5. Who is the character in "Hill Country" revealed to be?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does the stranger say to the narrator in "Wade in the Water"? How does this affect the narrator?

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

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

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