Images of Mortality from the Indigo Girls

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1. An early experience in Amy Ray's life was traumatic, but shaped her future sensitivities. The song "Dead Man's Hill" records her impressions of this event. What was it? Amy's experiences with terrorism in Chiapas Amy discovering a secret grave Amy witnessing a woman being beaten Amy witnessing older children setting cats on fire

2. Along with "Closer to Fine," this song is one of the Indigo Girls' "signatures." It is a musing on reincarnation; as Emily Saliers said, "It's meant to be light-hearted, like 'If this is really true, I've got a lot of baggage from my past lives!'" Answer: (One Word)

3. Amy Ray wrote this song after learning of a custom that Appalachian men used to honor and memorialize their wives that had passed away. Mountains of Glory Heartache for Everyone Cedar Tree Jacob's Ladder

4. Emily penned this song about the balance of loss in life versus the joy of experience. The song is perhaps most notable for Amy's haunting background vocals. Burn All The Letters Virginia Woolf Deconstruction All That We Let In

5. Which of the following songs is most similar in meaning to the Kansas song "Dust In The Wind"? Least Complicated History Of Us Everything In Its Own Time Kid Fears

6. Amy's song "Faye Tucker" recounts the death of Faye Tucker. How did she die? She was killed in a hit-and-run accident She was a victim of domestic violence She was executed She was a victim of an anti-gay hate crime

7. This song by Emily was an unlisted track on the "Come On Now Social" album. It told of the rejection of some people by society and the church, and the rationalization of deaths in war. Soon be to Nothing Hey Jesus Trouble Philosophy of Loss

8. What tragic historical event does Amy's song "Jacob's Ladder/This Train Revised" describe? The Holocaust The assassination of Martin Luther King Slavery Violence in Nicaragua

9. Amy Ray said of this song, "The wisdom of the song that I have tried to learn is about the simple cycles of life and how to learn from them, and how to appreciate beauty in the face of physical pain." Kid Fears Blood and Fire Ozilline Cordova

10. Which Indigo Girls song owes its imagery to Amy Ray's discovery of an old cemetery on a bicycle ride? Dead Man's Hill Jonas and Ezekial I Don't Know Your Name Land of Canaan