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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) Shell and no shell.
(b) Sunrise and sunset.
(c) Weather and rose.
(d) The bottom of people's shoes.

2. When does the musician finally stop playing in "The Weary Blues"?
(a) When the church service is over.
(b) When he collapses.
(c) When daybreak comes.
(d) When the bar closes.

3. What supernatural figure appears in the poem "Sunday Morning Prophecy"?
(a) Wizards.
(b) Fairies.
(c) Ghosts.
(d) Devils.

4. In "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," where does the speaker say he has been over time?
(a) The Euphrates.
(b) The Nile.
(c) The Congo.
(d) All of these answers are correct.

5. What is Hughes known as being the originator of?
(a) Jazz poetry.
(b) Modernist poetry.
(c) Slam poetry.
(d) African American poetry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker claim people do on the sea in "Long Trip"?

2. In the poem "Feet o' Jesus," what does the author want to happen at Jesus's feet?

3. When was "Selected Poems of Langston Hughes" published?

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

5. In the poem "Catch," what is Big Boy carrying on his shoulders?

(see the answer key)

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