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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section V: Distance Nowhere.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one common theme in the poems presented in the "Feet o' Jesus" section of "Selected Poems of Langston Hughes"?
(a) New York City.
(b) Religion.
(c) Money.
(d) Fame.

2. What kind of music are tambourines often used in?
(a) Gospel music.
(b) Traditional Chinese music.
(c) Classical music.
(d) Irish music.

3. In the poem "Fire," who does the author say he has had more women than?
(a) Than the gardener had tomatoes.
(b) Than the president had votes.
(c) Than the forest had trees.
(d) Than Pharoah had wives.

4. What race was Langston Hughes?
(a) White.
(b) Asian.
(c) African American.
(d) Latino.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the speaker's mother say when life hurt her in the poem "Spirituals"?

2. What is all that a snail knows in "Snail"?

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

4. How does the woman in "Strange Hurt" wander in the cold during winter?

5. What is curved beneath Big Boy's arm in "Catch"?

(see the answer key)

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