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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What fills the sky in the second half of "Storm Ending"?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Storm clouds.
(c) Lightning.
(d) Rain.

2. What does the speaker worry about when calling the spirits in "Prayer"?
(a) They will not understand him.
(b) His voice will not reach them.
(c) They will not care.
(d) His words will be wrong.

3. Where does the dog go at night in "Calling Jesus"?
(a) It sleeps under the woman's bed.
(b) It wanders the forest.
(c) It waits at the woman's door.
(d) It talks to Jesus.

4. What is Tom's reaction when men mention Louisa and Bob?
(a) He becomes violent.
(b) He begins to cry.
(c) He escapes to the woods.
(d) He becomes paranoid.

5. Who can save the woman described in "Calling Jesus"?
(a) Jesus.
(b) Herself.
(c) The speaker.
(d) Her family.

6. In what is Rhobert sinking?
(a) Blood.
(b) Water.
(c) Mud.
(d) Swamp water.

7. Who is the piano player in the theater that Muriel and Dan go to?
(a) Jack Kleat.
(b) Fats Domino.
(c) King Fish.
(d) Jim Clem.

8. Where do Bona and Paul get into an argument?
(a) In the hallway.
(b) In Paul's room.
(c) In the street.
(d) On the dance floor.

9. What courses through the speaker's veins in "Her Lips are Copper Wire"?
(a) Fear.
(b) Blood.
(c) Hate.
(d) Electricity.

10. Where would the drone bee optimally be if he were not in the beehive?
(a) On a flower.
(b) In the city.
(c) Flying in the sky.
(d) Near a pond.

11. After comparing his soul to a little finger, how does the speaker then describe this body part?
(a) Small.
(b) Frail.
(c) Immovable.
(d) Resilient.

12. What event has just happened preceding the descriptions in "Seventh Street"?
(a) Civil Rights Movement.
(b) Abolition of slavery.
(c) World War II.
(d) World War I.

13. In "Her Lips are Copper Wire," what does Toomer use as a larger description theme?
(a) Cars.
(b) Sports.
(c) Electricity.
(d) Sculpture.

14. How does Avey initially feel about the speaker?
(a) She is indifferent.
(b) She loves him.
(c) She hates him.
(d) She respects him.

15. In "Storm Ending", to what is the thunder compared?
(a) A drum.
(b) An explosion.
(c) A flower.
(d) A dog's howl.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose reaction is Bob Stone concerned about in thinking about Louisa and him?

2. Why does the speaker in "Harvest Song" not call out to his fellow workers?

3. What does Helen think are Bona's feelings toward Paul?

4. What ethnicity is Paul?

5. Who is the speaker in "Harvest Song"?

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