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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 reflects on the fact that everyone she knew at the time was living a similar life that included hating what two things?
(a) Dirty public transportation and being poor.
(b) Abundance and charity.
(c) Innocence and privacy.
(d) Urban living and crowds.

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

3. In "Ash," the speaker describes a house that must constantly be replenished and repaired, a house that does what?
(a) Complains and sighs.
(b) Sings and dances.
(c) Gets injured and injures.
(d) Trips and falls.

4. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” the women crouch down around the man and tell him what?
(a) They will not rest until his kind is dead.
(b) They forgive him.
(c) He should be sorry.
(d) The only way this country’s going to turn around is – it will be a bloodbath.

5. In "The Greatest Personal Privation," Stanza 4, the speaker and others, known as ‘we,’ want to do what?
(a) Forgive those who have sinned against them.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Flee.
(d) Something about all that has happened.

Short Answer Questions

1. In “The United States Welcomes You,” the speaker is questioning an unknown person, asking what?

2. There was love in the water, where the people pretended to do what?

3. “The Greatest Personal Privation” and “Unwritten” come from letters written between whom?

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

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

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