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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section XI: Madam to You.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the one thing the fortune teller in "Ballad of the Fortune Teller" couldn't see?
(a) When she was going to die.
(b) Where her lover went.
(c) That her business was going to go bankrupt.
(d) That she was going to be robbed.

2. What does the speaker in "Mother to Son" claim her life has NOT been?
(a) "No crystal stair."
(b) "No happy tune."
(c) "No easy train to ride."
(d) "No happy path."

3. Who is the congregation crying out to in "Shout"?
(a) The newspaper reporter.
(b) The other church across the street.
(c) Jesus.
(d) The couple getting married that day.

4. What does the speaker claim people do on the sea in "Long Trip"?
(a) Dip and dive.
(b) Swim and float.
(c) Sail and wail.
(d) Flip and fly.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In the poem "Fire," who does the author say he has had more women than?

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

5. What major era did Hughes contribute to?

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