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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When a holy person, as mentioned in "Deadly," imagines trembling, what is trembling in fear?
(a) God.
(b) Man.
(c) The entire natural world.
(d) The tiger.

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

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

4. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” why does a wife ask her husband to send for her?
(a) She does not know where he is.
(b) She does not have the money to get to him.
(c) She is unable to leave her mistress.
(d) She is still a slave.

5. How are the angels described in "The Angels"?
(a) Much like most of humanity.
(b) White and glittering.
(c) Grizzled and in leather bike gear.
(d) Poor and in rags.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "A Man's World," when the world is shown, to what is it compared?

2. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” a husband writes to his wife, encouraging her to bring herself and their children, including the baby he has never met, to him in what state?

3. Has the narrator of "The Angels" had other angel encounters?

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

5. The character in "Hill Country" can almost believe in what?

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