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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Dark Symphony.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the white man tell the black man to forget in "Andante Sostenuto"?
(a) Pain.
(b) Money.
(c) Family.
(d) Slavery.

2. What does Tolson say forgetting is akin to in "Andante Sostenuto"?
(a) Enslaving.
(b) Massacring.
(c) Spurning democracy.
(d) Loving.

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

4. Why does the bartender judge the narrator in "An Ex-Judge at the Bar"?
(a) He doesn't drink scotch.
(b) He has no manners.
(c) He hit a woman.
(d) He killed a black soldier in the Flanders Field.

5. How long does Tolson say blacks were enslaved in "Andante Sostenuto"?
(a) 100 years.
(b) 300 years.
(c) 500 years.
(d) 50 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Tolson repeat the same stanzas of the poem "The Mountain Climber"?

2. What does the black man want in "Tempo Primo"?

3. What concept does the poem "Tempo Primo" discuss?

4. What crash does "Larghetto" assert black men were not involved in?

5. Who is La Guardia?

(see the answer key)

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