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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. Why did Carma take a lover?
(a) She was bored.
(b) She didn't take a lover.
(c) She wanted attention.
(d) She hated Bane.

2. To what does the speaker compare another birth in the family line in "Song of the Son"?
(a) A plum seed.
(b) A royal crown.
(c) A tree leaf.
(d) A bird's nest.

3. What kind of songs are being sung in the cotton fields by field workers in "Georgia Dusk"?
(a) Field songs.
(b) Blues songs.
(c) Folk songs.
(d) Church songs.

4. How is the weather in Georgia in November?
(a) Raining.
(b) Snowing.
(c) Cold.
(d) Warm.

5. What did Karintha do as a child?
(a) Played baseball.
(b) Danced with older boys.
(c) Gossiped about her peers.
(d) Loved to read.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the townspeople secretly bring Becky?

2. How are the eyebrows of the old woman described in "Face" shaped?

3. How is Esther described physically?

4. What animals were described as searching for water?

5. How do the men in Fern's city feel about her after the narrator begins to pay her attention?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why might the author have used electrical imagery to describe the woman in "Her Lips are Copper Wire"?

2. As Karintha becomes a woman, what do young men do for her?

3. How is Christ described in "Calling Jesus"?

4. Discuss the visual and social contrasts that the author sets up between Black Seventh Street and the rest of white Washington.

5. In the poem "Seventh Street," how has prohibition affected the Black residents of Washington, D.C.?

6. Why might Toomer have chosen to end with the image of light upon Father John and Carrie?

7. How has Avey been living when the speaker encounters her in New York, and how do we know?

8. How does Louisa feel about Tom Burwell and Bob Stone?

9. Given the imagery in the poem "Portrait in Georgia", how might the author view the position of black Georgian residents?

10. What does the speaker want the woman to do in "Her Lips are Copper Wire"?

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