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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. Who is listening to the stories Aunt Sue tells in "Aunt Sue's Stories"?
(a) No one, which is why the poem is so sad.
(b) A "brown-faced child."
(c) Her husband.
(d) The entire neighborhood.

2. What major era did Hughes contribute to?
(a) The Birth of Slam Poetry.
(b) The Iron Age.
(c) The Harlem Renaissance.
(d) The Novelists' Novelty Time.

3. Where did the speaker in "Late Last Night" sit and cry?
(a) At the bank.
(b) At the cemetary.
(c) In the garden.
(d) On the steps.

4. What did the speaker's lover also pawn when he/she pawned the speaker's watch?
(a) Heart.
(b) Youth.
(c) Brain.
(d) Sanity.

5. What is "Prayer Meeting" an example of?
(a) Old English.
(b) A vignette.
(c) Speaking in tongues.
(d) Iambic pentameter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time does the speaker mention going down to the river in "Reverie on the Harlem River"?

2. In "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," where does the speaker say he has been over time?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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