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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Hill Country," the speaker describes someone as he travels where?
(a) Down from a high bridge to still water.
(b) Down from high above in the hills and the place where he is surrounded by peace and quiet.
(c) To the river from a high peak.
(d) To the mountains from the city.

2. Who is the character in "Hill Country" revealed to be?
(a) Abraham.
(b) A woodsman.
(c) God.
(d) An angel.

3. What is the reason Mary gives for why it would not be in the best interest of the slaves to be set free?
(a) They are too needed on the plantation.
(b) They cannot be trusted.
(c) They could not survive among free society.
(d) They are in a degraded state.

4. In "The Angels," who does the speaker say spoke to angels as she was dying?
(a) Her sister.
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her mother.

5. The speaker of "Deadly" says that those who are holy imagine a strong beast that attacks and kills what?
(a) A giraffe.
(b) A human.
(c) A tiger.
(d) A gazelle.

6. In "The World is Your Beautiful Younger Sister," the world is compared to what?
(a) A wilde, savage place.
(b) A locket on a chain.
(c) A young gazelle.
(d) A young, innocent woman taken advantage of by rough men.

7. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” there is a collection of addresses to various people. What is the purpose of this collection?
(a) To show the reader the various reasons why colored Civil War soldiers were asking for their pensions.
(b) To show the reader how educated the Civil War soldiers were.
(c) To show the reader how polite the Civil War soldiers were.
(d) To show the reader how many left slavery to fight in the Civil War.

8. What will happen to those, including women and children, who do not follow the orders to leave camp in “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It”?
(a) They will allowed to stay and rest.
(b) They will be shot.
(c) They will be sent away.
(d) They will be sent to jail.

9. In "Declaration," an unnamed ‘he’ has sent officers to do what?
(a) Sign a document.
(b) Declare peace.
(c) Harass our people.
(d) Arrest the thieves.

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

11. What does the character in "Hill Country" stave off in regard to the injured animal?
(a) Fear.
(b) Death.
(c) Attack by vultures.
(d) Further injury.

12. 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 out of slavery and out of the United States for Canada.
(b) Run right out of slavery In to soldiery.
(c) Are freed from slavery and soon end up enslaved to educating themselves.
(d) Leave slavery and end up in bondage to their new bosses.

13. After the Civil War, for what did many Black soldiers struggle to receive from the U.S. government?
(a) Health insurance.
(b) Housing.
(c) Jobs.
(d) A military pension.

14. How is love described as pain, when singing "Wade in the Water"?
(a) Loving one's first swim lessons.
(b) Allowing one to feel what it was to run away, being chased by dogs and guns, and so many not surviving the escape.
(c) Feeling the pain of those who were forced to wade in the water.
(d) Having to take a bath when you would rather still be out playing.

15. As the speaker in "The Angels" slept, she feels what sense?
(a) Love and safety.
(b) Panic and anxiety.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Warmth and comfort.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Angels," the speaker imagines what between the two angels, as she sleeps?

2. In "A Man’s World," the speaker says that someone will very likely show you a world when?

3. Has the narrator of "The Angels" had other angel encounters?

4. The character in "Hill Country" passes what injured animal?

5. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” a slave asks President Lincoln advise on how to leave his mistress. Why?

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