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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sonnets.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tolson claim in "Dark Symphony" that the black man has less of then white men?
(a) Land.
(b) Anger.
(c) Power.
(d) Greed.

2. What is a Hamlet?
(a) A murder.
(b) A slice of meat.
(c) A flower.
(d) A ring.

3. Why does the scientist in "A Primer for Today" claim change occurs?
(a) Reproduction in the animal and plant kingdom.
(b) God.
(c) No one knows.
(d) Magic.

4. What does the historian want to know in "A Primer for Today"?
(a) The future.
(b) Whether change happens fast or slow.
(c) What happened to JFK.
(d) Who the last ten presidents were.

5. In "The Shift of Gears," what does the man fix?
(a) His boat.
(b) His bike.
(c) His motercycle.
(d) His car.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Louis Brandeis?

2. Who does the farmer in "Old Man Michael" blame for his bad crops?

3. Who are the bad men in America according to the poem "Rendezvous With America"?

4. What does the Malay wear in "The Blindness of Scorn"?

5. How does the poet describe the people that flock to America in "Rendezvous With America"?

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