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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 is all that a snail knows in "Snail"?
(a) Weather and rose.
(b) Shell and no shell.
(c) Sunrise and sunset.
(d) The bottom of people's shoes.

2. Who shows the speaker a bad luck card in "Bad Luck Card"?
(a) A random person on the street.
(b) A priest.
(c) A relative.
(d) A gypsy.

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

4. Where does Hughes get the title "Feet of Jesus" from for that particular section in "Selected Poems of Langston Hughes"?
(a) A poem of the same name.
(b) A popular TV show of the time.
(c) His favorite Jazz song.
(d) His mother's favorite phrases.

5. What does the speaker comment about one's sweetheart in "Reverie on the Harlem River"?
(a) That she's as beautiful as the sunrise.
(b) That he wishes she'd never been born.
(c) That she's as beautiful as the sunset.
(d) That she's a lying, cheating fake.

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. Where did the speaker in "Late Last Night" sit and cry?

4. Where does Aunt Sue get her stories from in "Aunt Sue's Stories"?

5. How are the poems in "Selected Poems of Langston Hughes" organized?

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