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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. How does the speaker describe the trumpet player's music in "Trumpet Player"?
(a) Like "a sick cat / Crying for the final dawn."
(b) Like "honey / Mixed with liquid fire."
(c) Like "angel's voice / Filled with sorrow."
(d) Like "mother's voice / Through the darkest of nights."

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

3. What would the speaker in "Young Gal's Blues" rather be dead than?
(a) Poor and stupid.
(b) Old and stupid.
(c) Ugly and old.
(d) Ugly and poor.

4. What does the trumpet player have beneath his eyes in "Trumpet Player"?
(a) "The guilt of sins from yesterday."
(b) "Dark moons of weariness."
(c) "The glow of a man on fire inside."
(d) "The shining light of an angel."

5. What does the speaker encourage the reader to wonder about when down by the river?
(a) What (you) got left.
(b) The power of love.
(c) The preciousness of children.
(d) How beautiful nature is.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker say is a strong thing in "Spirituals"?

2. What does the speaker in "Little Old Letter" claim pen and paper have the power to do?

3. What is one way Sylvester knows he is dying in "Sylvester's Dying Bed"?

4. What "mellows to a golden note" in "Trumpet Player"?

5. In "Angels Wings," what does the speaker say the angel's wings are as white as?

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