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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 “Watershed,” what does the speaker first describe?
(a) Beautiful water.
(b) J's life.
(c) The landfill.
(d) Land and cattle.

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

3. “I Will Tell You the Truth about This, I Will Tell You All” is comprised entirely of what?
(a) Letters and statements of southern slave owners.
(b) Letters and statements of African Americans enlisted in the Civil War or their family members.
(c) Letters and statements of court houses in the south.
(d) Letters and statements of President Lincoln.

4. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” the speaker says, although the slaves are now free, they are not really free, because they do what?
(a) Run right out of slavery In to soldiery.
(b) Leave slavery and end up in bondage to their new bosses.
(c) Are freed from slavery and soon end up enslaved to educating themselves.
(d) Run out of slavery and out of the United States for Canada.

5. In what state did Jones live?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Alabama.

Short Answer Questions

1. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” a man is leaning on what?

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

3. When a holy person, as mentioned in "Deadly," imagines trembling, what is trembling in fear?

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

5. In “Watershed,” how is camera footage described?

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