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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section VIII: Lament Over Love.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What inappropriate fashion item do the pimps wear in "What?"
(a) Baseball caps indoors.
(b) White shoes after Labor Day.
(c) Summer hats into late fall.
(d) Horizontal stripes.

2. What annoying habit of his Baby does the speaker address in "Morning After"?
(a) Sneezing.
(b) Snoring.
(c) Drooling.
(d) Leaving dishes out all the time.

3. When does the musician finally stop playing in "The Weary Blues"?
(a) When daybreak comes.
(b) When he collapses.
(c) When the church service is over.
(d) When the bar closes.

4. What 2 places does the speaker go to in "Young Gal's Blues"?
(a) The doctor's office and the hospital.
(b) The post office and the grocery store.
(c) The graveyard and the poor house.
(d) The beauty shop and the nail salon.

5. What does the speaker comment about one's sweetheart in "Reverie on the Harlem River"?
(a) That she's a lying, cheating fake.
(b) That he wishes she'd never been born.
(c) That she's as beautiful as the sunrise.
(d) That she's as beautiful as the sunset.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who sends the speaker a letter in "Personal"?

2. Where does the speaker find himself after dying in the poem "Judgment Day"?

3. Where does Hughes get the title "Feet of Jesus" from for that particular section in "Selected Poems of Langston Hughes"?

4. How does the woman in "Strange Hurt" wander in the cold during winter?

5. In the poem "Fire," who does the author say he has had more women than?

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