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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Black Panther in the poem of the same name is said to "wear no" (141) what?
(a) Badge of honor.
(b) Disguise.
(c) Emotion.
(d) Smile.

2. About which religious figure is the poem entitled "Encounter"?
(a) Noah.
(b) Moses.
(c) Jesus.
(d) A rabbi.

3. What word is spelled out at the end of the poem entitled "Dream Boogie"?
(a) Mama.
(b) Geez.
(c) Zoot.
(d) Yeah.

4. The speaker of the poem entitled "Without Benefit of Declaration" rails against what element of society?
(a) Racism.
(b) Rape.
(c) Drugs.
(d) War.

5. In the poem "To Be Somebody," what object does the "little girl" (92) dream of?
(a) A trumpet.
(b) A piano.
(c) A kitten.
(d) An art easel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What literary device is NOT used within the poem entitled "To Be Somebody"?

2. The woman within the poem "Madam and the Census Man" tells the census man not to write down what title on the census form?

3. What is the final verb used in the poem entitled "Question and Answer," when the optimistic speaker within the poem says his final piece?

4. What type of funeral lies at the center of the poem entitled "Dead in There"?

5. What type of literary device is used consistently within the first three lines of the poem entitled "Mississippi"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss one humanist message put forth within the poem entitled "Junior Addict."

2. Discuss two examples of personification within the poem entitled "Georgia Dusk."

3. Characterize the two speakers within the poem entitled "Question and Answer."

4. What does the speaker of the poem entitled "Junior Addict" suggest as the solution for the addiction problem in the subject?

5. What historical figure is quoted within the poem that includes the lines "Who would be free/Themselves must strike/The first blow" (136)?

6. Discuss the way in which the theme of appearance versus reality appears within the poem entitled "Dinner Guest: Me."

7. In what way could the poem "To Artina" be said to display a feminist message?

8. What possibilities does Hughes imagine in relation to a "dream deferred" (108) in perhaps his most famous poem, entitled "Harlem [2]"?

9. In the poem that begins with three different interjections to do with "sorrow" and "pity" and "pain" (115), what type of eyes is terror said to have?

10. What is the setting of the poem entitled "Projection"?

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