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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. What do the people of Addis Ababa want to the bard to do?
(a) Berate them.
(b) Feed them.
(c) Heal them.
(d) Empower them.

2. How does the poet describe the people that flock to America in "Rendezvous With America"?
(a) Criminal.
(b) Great.
(c) Angry.
(d) Poor.

3. Who is Stokowski?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A composer.
(c) A painter.
(d) A lawyer.

4. Who meets in the sanctuary in "The Triumph Aster"?
(a) North and South.
(b) East and West.
(c) A man and woman.
(d) Children.

5. What concept does the poem "Tempo Primo" discuss?
(a) Future versus past.
(b) Education in America.
(c) The harlem pride.
(d) The new black man.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the poem "The Ballad of the Rattlesnake," what color is the man's dyed hair?

2. What time period does "Lento Grave" discuss?

3. What is the town logo in "The Town of Fathers"?

4. What does the mechanic in "The Shift of Gears" tell the narrator?

5. Who meets at Versailles?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Babylon symbolize America in the poem "Babylon"?

2. What will bring death to the narrator in "If You Should Lie to Me"?

3. How does Tolson describe the common people in "Rendezvous with America"?

4. How do different people view the world in "A Primer for Today"?

5. What might the volcano's eruption signify in the poem "Vesuvius"?

6. Why is it important that Tolson does not identify the race of the person who tells the story in "The Ballad of the Rattlesnake"?

7. Why does the narrator in "An Ex-Judge at the Bar" feel guilty, and how does he appease this guilt?

8. How does "The Street Called Straight" become crooked?

9. Describe the bard in "The Bard of Addis Ababa."

10. In "A Scholar Looks at an Oak," how is the black man represented?

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