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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. How does "Ghazal" end?
(a) Say my name! Say my name!
(b) What is in a name?
(c) Oh what a beautiful thing it is to have a name.
(d) Our name our name our name our fraught, fraught name.

2. What does the character in "Hill Country" stave off in regard to the injured animal?
(a) Further injury.
(b) Death.
(c) Attack by vultures.
(d) Fear.

3. Stanza 5 of "The Greatest Personal Privation" tells of the families destroyed how?
(a) Through the selling off of all the parts that make up a family.
(b) By the spreading of lies through famiies.
(c) By the ending of slavery.
(d) Through regularly selling off male slaves.

4. In "Declaration," the people have reminded those in power of how they came to live in this nation, taken captive where?
(a) From their native lands.
(b) On the high seas.
(c) In the wild west.
(d) In the cotton fields.

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”?
(a) To have her husband's pension sent to her.
(b) To have her husband released from the army.
(c) To have her son released from the army,
(d) To have her son return home in one piece at the end of the war.

Short Answer Questions

1. History in "Ghazal" is described as a ship that is always setting sail where the men on either shore do what?

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

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

4. What does the speaker in "The Angels" hope some angels are?

5. How does the poem "Unwritten" begin?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does the poem "Unwritten" begin?

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

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