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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does the woman at the beginning of “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It” say the president will be blessed?
2. 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?
3. The character in "Hill Country" comes down the road in his jeep with the windows rolled down. Why?
4. In "The Greatest Personal Privation," if these people turn out to be evil, then the speaker and others like her will meet this evil how?
5. In "The Angels," who does the speaker say spoke to angels as she was dying?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is the destruction of the world compared to a sister who is abused in "The World is Your Beautiful Younger Sister"?
2. What does the narrator in "A Man's World" say will happen to someone who is shown the whole world?
3. What is the difference between the power of a tiger and the power of man, according to the narrator in the poem "Deadly"?
4. What does the narrator notice about one of the angels? How does this bring her a sense of hope?
5. In "Declaration," what have officers been sent to do?
6. In "Ghazal," to what does the narrator compare the working of the field?
7. In "The Greatest Personal Privation," what does the narrator say in Stanza 1?
8. How have those who are attacked in "Declaration" respond? How do the attackers react?
9. 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?
10. How does the poem "The Greatest Personal Privation" begin?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Is it important for a writer or artist to have a body of work that clearly shows that it belongs to a certain writer or artist? Why or why not? What writers and/or other artists you can think of that have a distinct style? What is their style?
Essay Topic 2
Smith frequently uses sentences in her poetry that overflow from one line to another with spaces in between. What might be her reasoning for doing this? How does it affect the flow of the poetry? Is it effective? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
Tracy uses simple, yet meaningful, descriptive language in her poems. Describe the language used in these poems. What similarities can be found within all of the poems? How does her descriptive language affect the tone of the poems as well as the feelings of the reader?
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