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

2. What does the speaker encourage the reader to wonder about when down by the river?
(a) The preciousness of children.
(b) The power of love.
(c) What (you) got left.
(d) How beautiful nature is.

3. Where does the playboy mentioned in "Gone Boy" NOT go at the end of the poem?
(a) Work.
(b) His parents' house.
(c) Home.
(d) The grocery store.

4. When does the musician finally stop playing in "The Weary Blues"?
(a) When the church service is over.
(b) When the bar closes.
(c) When daybreak comes.
(d) When he collapses.

5. What nickname does Sylvester give himself in "Sylvester's Dying Bed"?
(a) Sylvest the Best.
(b) Saint Sylvester.
(c) Sly Syl.
(d) Sweet Papa 'Vester.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which continent features most prominently in "Selected Poems of Langston Hughes"?

2. Where does the speaker find himself after dying in the poem "Judgment Day"?

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

4. What inanimate object speaks in "Heaven"?

5. What kind of music are tambourines often used in?

(see the answer key)

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