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Which of the following is true about American spirituals?
Question 1 options:

A. They developed during the the Civil War

B. They often contained allusions to Biblical events, figures and themes

C. They contained hidden codes pertaining to finding freedom

D. B and C

E. None of the above

2. Which line in "Go Down, Moses" most clearly states its central message?
Question 2 options:

A. "Go down, Moses"

B. "Let my people go"

C. "Thus saith the Lord"

D." Oppressed so hard, they could not stand"

3. Part A: What do the spirituals “Go Down, Moses”, “Follow the Drinking Gourd” and “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” most clearly reveal about the slaves who originally sang them?

Question 3 options:

A. They accepted slavery as the way of the world.

B. They were often highly educated.

C. They longed for freedom.

D. They sang songs.


4. Part B: Which of the following lines support your answer to # 3?
Question 4 options:

A. “For the old man is a-waiting to carry you to freedom, if you follow the drinking gourd” (“Follow the Drinking Gourd" 185)

B. “Go down, Moses, Way down in Egypt land” (“Go Down Moses" 187)

C. “I looked over Jordan and what did I see” (“Swing Low Sweet Chariot” 188)

D. “The river bank will make a very good road” (“Follow the Drinking Gourd” 185)


5. How is war portrayed in both “Vigil Strange I Kept on a Field One Night” and “A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown”?
Question 5 options:

A. As a glorious event

B. As brutal and ugly

C. As unexplainable

D. As something no one should participate in (all soldiers should stop fighting)

6. Consider this excerpt from "A March in the ranks Hard-Prest and the Road Unknown": Entering but for a minute I see a sight beyond all the pictures and
poems ever made,
Shadows of deepest, deepest black, just lit by moving candles and
lamps,
And by one great pitchy torch stationary with wild red flame and clouds
of smoke Based on the opening lines of “A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest and the Road Unknown”, what is the tone of this poem?
Question 6 options:

A. Mournful

B. Eerie

C. Joyful

D. Creative

7. PART A: What is the main theme, or message, of “The Gettysburg Address”?
Question 7 options:

A. It is the duty of the living to take up the cause for which the soldiers died and save the United States.

B. The Civil War was a terrible war and destructive to the continuation of the United States.

C. The dead soldiers should be commemorated and remembered.

D. Whatever the outcome, it’s just good to know the war is now over.


8. PART B: Which of the following quotes from “The Gettysburg Address” supports your answer to # 7?
Question 8 options:

A. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure (Lincoln 184).”

B. “But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract” (Lincoln 184).

C. “It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced” (Lincoln 184)



9. In “O Captain! My Captain!” Walt Whitman creates an extended metaphor. Which of the following are true about this poem?
Question 9 options:

A. The captain represents Abraham Lincoln

B. The ship represents the Confederate States

C. The port represents the end of the Civil War

D. A and C

E. All of the above

10. Which of following lines indicate how the speaker in the poem felt about the captain?
Question 10 options:

A. “Here Captain! dear father!”

B. “Exult O shores, and ring O bells!
But I with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.”

C. “My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will,”

D. All of the above