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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The speaker of "The Greatest Personal Privation" says in Stanza 1 it is terrible belonging to this woman. Why?
(a) Their owners will not sell them to others.
(b) Their owners cannot be trusts, because they have the power to destroy the whole family.
(c) This woman forces them to work in the fields.
(d) This woman is abusive and does not care for anyone but herself.

2. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” why does a wife ask her husband to send for her?
(a) She is unable to leave her mistress.
(b) She does not know where he is.
(c) She does not have the money to get to him.
(d) She is still a slave.

3. What is NOT a reason why not being able to read or write hinders the paying of a pension deserved to former black Civil War soldiers?
(a) They are not trusted to be the person deserving a pension.
(b) They do not know what their legal names are, as they go by something else.
(c) They do not know how to spell their names to request their pensions.
(d) They can steal pensions from other soldiers.

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

5. 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) Innocence and privacy.
(c) Urban living and crowds.
(d) Abundance and charity.

6. In "Realm of Shades," what does the speaker wonder when she thinks about our shadows on the ground?
(a) How many shadows have passed this way?
(b) What hides in the shadows?
(c) Where do shadows come from?
(d) How much more will we bury in the earth?

7. In Stanza 5 of "The Greatest Personal Privation," what happened time and time again?
(a) Families were cut apart quickly and without warning.
(b) Slaves were freed from bondage.
(c) Male slaves were regularly sold.
(d) Slave owners freed their slaves.

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

9. 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 are not smart enough to understand.
(c) They do not want anyone else to know their sins.
(d) Slavery is a lie and never happened.

10. In "Garden of Eden," what does the narrator greatly miss?
(a) Her college friends.
(b) The city.
(c) Her brownstone in Brooklyn.
(d) The Garden of Eden on Montague Street.

11. Why does the woman make such a strong plea at the beginning of ”I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It”?
(a) Her husband is dead, and she is dying.
(b) Her husband has died, and she is in need.
(c) She is dying and wants her family around her.
(d) Her son is dying, and she wants her husband there with him.

12. Has the narrator of "The Angels" had other angel encounters?
(a) No, never.
(b) Yes, rarely.
(c) Yes, regularly.
(d) Yes, sometimes.

13. 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) $10,000.
(b) $2,000.
(c) $1,000.
(d) $200.

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

15. How does the poem "Unwritten" begin?
(a) With a letter from a slave.
(b) With a letter from President Lincoln.
(c) With a letter from Mary Jones to her slaves.
(d) With a letter from Mary Jones to Charles Colcock Jones.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It” begin?

2. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” to whom does a slave write, asking him if he is now legally free?

3. How are the angels described in "The Angels"?

4. In "The Greatest Personal Privation," what does Mary Jones think is the greatest personal privation?

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

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