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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In “Watershed,” D’s first husband was what?
(a) A chemist.
(b) A veterinarian.
(c) A bio-engineer.
(d) A pharmacist.

2. In “Unrest in Baton Rouge,” how is love described?
(a) An alien idea.
(b) Bleeding out.
(c) A heart cut open and cleaned like a dead animal.
(d) A total loss.

3. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” what do the colored men in the military say they deserve?
(a) Freedom from slavery and the Army.
(b) More money.
(c) Equal treatment.
(d) Higher ranking.

4. In “The United States Welcomes You,” the speaker asks if the person is there in regard to whom?
(a) Living a better life.
(b) Family members.
(c) Others that have been mistreated.
(d) Rumors they have heard.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Hill Country," the speaker describes someone as he travels where?

2. In "Garden of Eden," the speaker would walk home doing mental math on how much she had spent and what would suddenly hit her?

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

4. What will the other character do as you discover what each light, line, and shadow is in "A Man's World"?

5. In “New Road Station,” history is compared to a mother doing what?

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