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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section V: Distance Nowhere.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What did the speaker's lover also pawn when he/she pawned the speaker's watch?
(a) Sanity.
(b) Brain.
(c) Youth.
(d) Heart.
2. In the poem "Catch," what is Big Boy carrying on his shoulders?
(a) A basket of wheat.
(b) His son.
(c) The weight of the world.
(d) A mermaid.
3. Who is sitting in the amen-corner of the church in "Prayer Meeting"?
(a) A family.
(b) An old black woman.
(c) A homeless man asking for help.
(d) Jesus himself.
4. Where is Happiness in "Heaven"?
(a) Both of these answers are correct.
(b) Everywhere.
(c) None of these answers is correct.
(d) Nowhere.
5. What is Joy driving in "Joy"?
(a) An imaginary buggy.
(b) The butcher's cart.
(c) A fancy car.
(d) A horse-drawn carriage.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who selected the poems in "Selected Poems of Langston Hughes"?
2. What does the speaker comment about one's sweetheart in "Reverie on the Harlem River"?
3. In "Water-Front Streets," where does the speaker claim to carry "beauties"?
4. Which two countries are mentioned in "Seascape"?
5. Where did the speaker in "Late Last Night" sit and cry?
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