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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Fugitive Poems.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the poet compare the foundation of America to in "Larghetto"?
(a) A house.
(b) An ocean.
(c) A desert.
(d) A stream.

2. Where do the workers in "The Shipwright" feel they are citizens of?
(a) Europe.
(b) Earth.
(c) Asia.
(d) Italy.

3. What does "E.&O.E." stand for?
(a) Ears and orthopedics excellence.
(b) Edgar and Oliver Ewelle.
(c) Errors and omissions excepted.
(d) Errors and out-takes excellent.

4. How does the poet assert in "Dark Symphony" that black slaves created a brotherhood?
(a) Through love.
(b) Through tragedy.
(c) Letters.
(d) By code.

5. Who fought in Halicarnassus?
(a) Napoleon.
(b) Achilles.
(c) Alexander the Great.
(d) The Sioux.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the poem "The Man from Halicarnassus" about?

2. Who is Wu Shang in "African China"?

3. In "Larghetto," what has the black man not contributed to?

4. Who meets in the sanctuary in "The Triumph Aster"?

5. Who is the object in "Damascus Bride" fit for?

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