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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 question does the number runner ask Madam in "Madam and the Number Writer"?
(a) "But suppose / You goes to hell?"
(b) "You sure look nice / Serving that rice."
(c) "What would you say / To a date today?
(d) "Is that big frown / 'Cause your husband's around?"

2. In "Little Old Letter," the speaker claims never to have been so lonely since when?
(a) Since she first moved out on her own.
(b) Since she found out she was adopted.
(c) Since she was first left with a babysitter.
(d) Since she was born black.

3. What is being cooked for dinner in "Graduation"?
(a) Pot roast.
(b) Chicken.
(c) Greens.
(d) Brisket.

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

5. What asked the speaker for a kiss in "Suicide's Note"?
(a) A frog.
(b) A beautiful man.
(c) The river.
(d) An ugly woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the speaker's lover in "Lover's Return" come home to do?

2. What language, other than English, is used in the poem "Havana Dreams"?

3. What does the woman's pain tell her to do in "Strange Hurt"?

4. What place is the speaker trying to avoid in "One-Way Ticket"?

5. Who does Hughes dedicate "Selected Poems of Langston Hughes" to?

(see the answer key)

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