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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 have the money to get to him.
(b) She does not know where he is.
(c) She is still a slave.
(d) She is unable to leave her mistress.

2. What does the speaker in "Ghazal" ask regarding learning one’s name?
(a) What the name will mean to them.
(b) What it will be like when those who have not known their name suddenly learn it.
(c) Whether or not that name matters.
(d) What they will do with that name.

3. In Stanza 3 of "The Greatest Personal Privation," the speaker says that the entire country may not be able to heal from what?
(a) This separation of parent and child.
(b) The plantation life.
(c) The abuse of power.
(d) Slavery.

4. There was love in the water, where the people pretended to do what?
(a) Swim.
(b) Bathe.
(c) Wade.
(d) Get baptized.

5. The character in "Hill Country" can almost believe in what?
(a) Escape.
(b) Humanity.
(c) Something larger than himself.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an issue with the pensions of the black Civil War soldiers?

2. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” how much money did a man say he raised to free himself and his wife?

3. Who is the character in "Hill Country" revealed to be?

4. How does "Ghazal" end?

5. How does the poem "Unwritten" begin?

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