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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section IV: Land and Sea.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the title "Litany" refer to?
(a) A city in Africa.
(b) A prayer.
(c) A city in the South.
(d) All of these answers are correct.

2. Where does Aunt Sue get her stories from in "Aunt Sue's Stories"?
(a) Her own life.
(b) The TV.
(c) The radio.
(d) A book.

3. What time does the speaker mention going down to the river in "Reverie on the Harlem River"?
(a) Two a.m.
(b) Three p.m.
(c) Five a.m.
(d) Ten p.m.

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

5. Where is the dream a cocktail at in "Havana Dreams"?
(a) No one knows.
(b) Moe's.
(c) Sloppy Joe's.
(d) Bros'.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is sitting in the amen-corner of the church in "Prayer Meeting"?

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

3. In the poem "Fire," what does the author think fire is going to do?

4. Where does Hughes get the title "Feet of Jesus" from for that particular section in "Selected Poems of Langston Hughes"?

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

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