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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section VI: After Hours.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Big Boy going to do with the object on his shoulders in "Catch"?
(a) Drop him off at school.
(b) Marry her.
(c) Leave it at God's doorstep.
(d) Sell it at the market.

2. How are the poems in "Selected Poems of Langston Hughes" organized?
(a) Randomly.
(b) By publication date.
(c) Alphabetically.
(d) By thematic section.

3. What women are surrounding the speaker in "Sylvester's Dying Bed"?
(a) "The two best women I ever did meet."
(b) "All the womens in the town."
(c) "My mama and wife, lights of my life."
(d) "Mother Mary, sweet angel of mine."

4. What does the woman's pain tell her to do in "Strange Hurt"?
(a) "You'll find rain better / Than shelter from the rain."
(b) "Bathe in the river / As those before you have done."
(c) "Go outside / To understand your inner turmoil."
(d) "Walk through the fire / To better know the rain."

5. Who is sitting in the amen-corner of the church in "Prayer Meeting"?
(a) An old black woman.
(b) A homeless man asking for help.
(c) Jesus himself.
(d) A family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What inappropriate fashion item do the pimps wear in "What?"

2. What annoying habit of his Baby does the speaker address in "Morning After"?

3. What does the speaker see in "Seascape"?

4. In "Sunday Morning Prophecy," where does the preacher encourage the congregants to give freely?

5. When the speaker asks his lover if she understands him in "Maybe," what does she say?

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