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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The speaker remembers angels once in a hotel room. Why were they there?
(a) To pass on a message to her.
(b) To take to her heaven.
(c) To observe her.
(d) To scare her.

2. 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) More money.
(b) Equal treatment.
(c) Higher ranking.
(d) Freedom from slavery and the Army.

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

4. 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?
(a) He does not want to offend his mistress.
(b) He does not have the means to leave.
(c) His mistress refuses to let him go.
(d) He feels guilty leaving his mistress.

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

6. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” a man who was able to free himself and his wife asked in the letter for what to happen?
(a) The receiver of the letter to write to Abraham Lincoln on his behalf.
(b) The receiver of the letter to find his family for him.
(c) The receiver of the letter to care for his wife while he searches for the rest of his family.
(d) The receiver of the letter to help free the rest of his family.

7. What happens to the sick child who was removed from the camp with his family in “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It”?
(a) He survives for a few more months.
(b) He is treated by the Army physician and heals.
(c) He dies, and his father buries him.
(d) He is ill but arrives at the family's new home safely.

8. As the angels speak, the speaker dares to look at them and sees what?
(a) Both have long, flowing hair.
(b) Both are smiling with brilliant white teeth.
(c) One has teeth worn down to almost nothing.
(d) One has a halo.

9. How does "Wade in the Water" end?
(a) With a question – Is this love the trouble you promised?
(b) With the speaker being baptized.
(c) With a bath.
(d) With the speaker going for a swim.

10. In "A Man's World," when the world is shown, to what is it compared?
(a) A pocket watch.
(b) A locket on a chain.
(c) A globe.
(d) A ball of energy.

11. 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 be shot.
(b) They will be sent to jail.
(c) They will be sent away.
(d) They will allowed to stay and rest.

12. In "Garden of Eden," the speaker would walk home doing mental math on how much she had spent and what would suddenly hit her?
(a) How little she had in her bank account.
(b) How little food she had purchased.
(c) How much she loved the Garden of Eden.
(d) The known sun was setting on the dawning century.

13. In "The Angels," the speaker imagines what between the two angels, as she sleeps?
(a) A deck of playing cards.
(b) A meal.
(c) A book.
(d) A candle.

14. For what does the speaker in “Unwritten” feel that Mary and all others like her must answer?
(a) What they think of slaves and their capabilities.
(b) What they have done to the people they have enslaved and mistreated so terribly.
(c) Freeing their slaves so quickly with no financial support.
(d) Not paying their slaves an honest wage.

15. The speaker of "The Greatest Personal Privation" says they do not want those who are descendants of the people sold as property to know their history. Why?
(a) It is for their own good.
(b) They do not want anyone else to know their sins.
(c) They are not smart enough to understand.
(d) Slavery is a lie and never happened.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "Realm of Shades," those described in this poem are focused on what?

3. The speaker of "The Greatest Personal Privation" says in Stanza 1 it is terrible belonging to this woman. Why?

4. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” for what are they willing to sacrifice themselves and their families?

5. What causes the speaker in "Wade in the Water" painful grief?

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