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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section X: Name in Uphill Letters.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What language, other than English, is used in the poem "Havana Dreams"?
(a) Russian.
(b) Creole.
(c) Spanish.
(d) Gaelic.

2. How does the character in "Migrant" sign his paycheck?
(a) With his own blood.
(b) With "a crayon, just like a child."
(c) With his family's famous pen.
(d) In "uphill letters."

3. What is the speaker tired of in "One-Way Ticket"?
(a) All of these answers are correct.
(b) People who are afraid of him.
(c) Lynching.
(d) Jim Crow laws.

4. What does the Gypsy need in her hand in "Ballad of the Gypsy" before she reads the speaker's fortune?
(a) Bread.
(b) Wine.
(c) Silver.
(d) Gold.

5. What does the speaker claim the wine-maiden's lips are as sweet as in "Midnight Dancer"?
(a) Purple dew.
(b) Honey.
(c) Molasses.
(d) Sugar.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the poem "Catch," what is Big Boy carrying on his shoulders?

2. What country is NOT mentioned in any of the poems in "Sea and Land"?

3. In "Water-Front Streets," where does the speaker claim to carry "beauties"?

4. What does the speaker say the sea is a wilderness of in "Long Trip"?

5. With what triumphant phrase does the speaker conclude "Still Here"?

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