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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section XIII: Words Like Freedom.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Happiness in "Heaven"?
(a) None of these answers is correct.
(b) Nowhere.
(c) Both of these answers are correct.
(d) Everywhere.

2. What in particular does the speaker need a dime for in "Down and Out"?
(a) New shoes.
(b) A beer.
(c) Cleaning supplies.
(d) To see a movie.

3. What four things does the speaker in "Necessity" say he must do (in the beginning of the poem)?
(a) Mow the lawn, get the mail, fix the porch, and pain the house.
(b) Come home, drink, eat, and go to sleep.
(c) Wake up, shower, get dressed, and go to work.
(d) Eat, drink, stay black, and die.

4. What does the speaker hope for her child in the poem "Lament over Love"?
(a) That he or she will go to college.
(b) That he or she will not grow up to be poor.
(c) The he or she will never love a man.
(d) That he or she will stop being so bratty all the time.

5. What question does the Klan ask the speaker in "Ku Klux"?
(a) "How did you get here / Onto our great land?"
(b) "Do you believe / In the great white race?"
(c) "Do you believe in God?"
(d) "Are you afraid?"

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is sitting in the amen-corner of the church in "Prayer Meeting"?

2. Where does the speaker think the distance is between "here and there" in the poem "Border Line"?

3. In "Little Old Letter," the speaker claims never to have been so lonely since when?

4. Where does the speaker in "I, Too" get sent to eat?

5. What does the speaker in "Little Old Letter" claim pen and paper have the power to do?

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