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

2. What does the speaker in "Little Old Letter" claim pen and paper have the power to do?
(a) Seal a deal.
(b) Guarantee your rights.
(c) Take a person's life.
(d) Burn up and turn meaningless.

3. In the poem "Fire," who does the author say he has had more women than?
(a) Than the president had votes.
(b) Than the forest had trees.
(c) Than the gardener had tomatoes.
(d) Than Pharoah had wives.

4. Who is sitting in the amen-corner of the church in "Prayer Meeting"?
(a) An old black woman.
(b) A family.
(c) Jesus himself.
(d) A homeless man asking for help.

5. In "Angels Wings," what does the speaker say the angel's wings are as white as?
(a) Cotton.
(b) Snow.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Milk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker comment about one's sweetheart in "Reverie on the Harlem River"?

2. How does the woman in "Strange Hurt" wander in the cold during winter?

3. What kind of pain does the woman feel in "Strange Hurt"?

4. What women are surrounding the speaker in "Sylvester's Dying Bed"?

5. Who sends the speaker a letter in "Personal"?

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