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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Notes and Acknowledgments.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Garden of Eden," the speaker would walk home doing mental math on how much she had spent and what would suddenly hit her?
(a) How much she loved the Garden of Eden.
(b) How little she had in her bank account.
(c) How little food she had purchased.
(d) The known sun was setting on the dawning century.

2. In “Watershed,” in italics, the person floating is now in space seeing what as God must view it?
(a) The sun.
(b) The galaxy.
(c) Mankind.
(d) The world.

3. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” the sections in italics are from what?
(a) Letters from fans of Smith's poetry.
(b) Other pieces of literature.
(c) Several of Smith's other poems.
(d) Real life events involving hatred and racism towards Muslims, Hispanics, and refugee children.

4. The speaker of "The Greatest Personal Privation" says they do not want those who are descendants of the people sold as property to know their history. Why?
(a) They are not smart enough to understand.
(b) It is for their own good.
(c) They do not want anyone else to know their sins.
(d) Slavery is a lie and never happened.

5. “I Will Tell You the Truth about This, I Will Tell You All” contains much of the original what?
(a) Information from the various letters.
(b) Signatures of the letter writers.
(c) Full letters.
(d) Spelling and punctuation.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Garden of Eden," what does the narrator greatly miss?

2. How is love described as pain, when singing "Wade in the Water"?

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

4. In “Watershed,” it is revealed that the company decided against what, and chose to pay a low-level employee for inexpensive land for a landfill?

5. 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”?

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