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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Diondra Jordan p. 24 to Tyrone, p. 45.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to a style of jazz characterized by fast tempo, instrumental virtuosity and improvisation based on the combination of harmonic structure and melody?
(a) Gospel.
(b) Bebop.
(c) Ska.
(d) Reggae.

2. Who was the author of "Home to Harlem" in 1928?
(a) T.S.Eliot.
(b) Carl Sandburg.
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(d) Claude McKay.

3. What book does Janelle slip onto Devon's desk in "Devon Hope"?
(a) The Jungle Book.
(b) The Holy Bible.
(c) The Panther & the Lash.
(d) The Rose That Grew From Concrete.

4. When was Langston Hughes born?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1894.
(d) 1915.

5. Who does Tyrone describe as "all hopped up about working on Broadway" in "Tyrone Bitting"?
(a) Steve.
(b) Dave.
(c) Malcolm.
(d) John.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1943, Langston Hughes began publishing stories about what character who was an everyday black man in Harlem and offered musings on topical issues of the day?

2. What is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the Deep South of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads?

3. After reading his poem in class, Wesley is told by "Teach" that he still expects what from him in "Wesley Bad Boy Boone"?

4. The author describes painting a ribbon of what "on your windowsill" in "If"?

5. The author writes in "If" of planting what kind of roses "in your garden"?

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