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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section VIII: Lament Over Love.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What women are surrounding the speaker in "Sylvester's Dying Bed"?
(a) "My mama and wife, lights of my life."
(b) "Mother Mary, sweet angel of mine."
(c) "The two best women I ever did meet."
(d) "All the womens in the town."

2. Where does the speaker find himself after dying in the poem "Judgment Day"?
(a) Back in Atlanta.
(b) With God.
(c) In Hell.
(d) Back in his childhood bedroom.

3. In the poem "Fire," what does the author think fire is going to do?
(a) Clean his sins away.
(b) Burn his house down.
(c) Burn his soul.
(d) Burn his crops.

4. What did the speaker's lover in "Lover's Return" come home to do?
(a) Cry.
(b) Die.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Cook.

5. Who is the song for in "Genius Child"?
(a) The genius child himself.
(b) A former professor of the speaker.
(c) A student.
(d) The average child.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the musician finally stop playing in "The Weary Blues"?

2. What does Big Boy want his woman to share with him in "50-50"?

3. What is missing from the wall in "End"?

4. How does the speaker specifically describe the tulips in "Garden"?

5. What annoying habit of his Baby does the speaker address in "Morning After"?

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