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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The character in "Hill Country" climbs back into the jeep and drives off back to where?
(a) The hill.
(b) Heaven.
(c) Nowhere.
(d) Everywhere.

2. In "Declaration," the people have reminded those in power of how they came to live in this nation, taken captive where?
(a) In the cotton fields.
(b) On the high seas.
(c) From their native lands.
(d) In the wild west.

3. How is love described as pain, when singing "Wade in the Water"?
(a) Feeling the pain of those who were forced to wade in the water.
(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) Having to take a bath when you would rather still be out playing.
(d) Loving one's first swim lessons.

4. For what does the woman plea at the beginning of ”I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It”?
(a) To have her husband's pension sent to her.
(b) To have her son released from the army,
(c) To have her son return home in one piece at the end of the war.
(d) To have her husband released from the army.

5. 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?
(a) $1,000.
(b) $200.
(c) $10,000.
(d) $2,000.

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

7. The character in "Hill Country" leaves the stack of worn planks outside where?
(a) A castle.
(b) Ancient ruins.
(c) A cabin.
(d) A barn.

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

9. In "Ghazal," to what does the speaker compare to the stealing of someone’s name?
(a) Attacking and robbing someone at gunpoint.
(b) Pickpocketing a naive tourist.
(c) Working in the fields and stripping the stalks of stolen crops.
(d) Stealing money from a bank or precious jewels from a safe.

10. In "The Greatest Personal Privation," if these people turn out to be evil, then the speaker and others like her will meet this evil how?
(a) By fleeing to Canada.
(b) With even more evil.
(c) As best they can.
(d) With peace.

11. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” a husband writes to his wife, encouraging her to bring herself and their children, including the baby he has never met, to him in what state?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) North Carolina.

12. Why are sentences left incomplete in "Declaration"?
(a) To show the confusion of the speaker.
(b) To leave it to the reader to fill in the blank of what has been stolen or destroyed.
(c) To reveal how the lives of the characters are incomplete.
(d) To confuse the reader.

13. Stanza 5 of "The Greatest Personal Privation" tells of the families destroyed how?
(a) Through the selling off of all the parts that make up a family.
(b) By the ending of slavery.
(c) Through regularly selling off male slaves.
(d) By the spreading of lies through famiies.

14. Why does the woman at the beginning of “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It” say the president will be blessed?
(a) He is a white man of priviledge.
(b) He is a saint among men.
(c) He truly cares about all of his citizens.
(d) He cares for the poor.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When the speaker of "The Angels" reflects on what it must be like to be an angel, about what does she think?

4. Why does the father plead to not have his family removed from the camp in “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It”?

5. In "Garden of Eden," why does the narrator's arm get sore?

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