View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Langston Hughes known for?
(a) Being a poet.
(b) All of these answers are correct.
(c) Being an essayist.
(d) Being a social activist.

2. Where does the speaker think the distance is between "here and there" in the poem "Border Line"?
(a) Nowhere.
(b) Everywhere.
(c) The red line of the subway.
(d) In his own mind.

3. What does the speaker say is a strong thing in "Spirituals"?
(a) Song.
(b) Water.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Nature.

4. Where is Happiness in "Heaven"?
(a) Nowhere.
(b) Everywhere.
(c) Both of these answers are correct.
(d) None of these answers is correct.

5. When was "Selected Poems of Langston Hughes" published?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1999.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1859.

Short Answer Questions

1. What asked the speaker for a kiss in "Suicide's Note"?

2. Where is the dream a cocktail at in "Havana Dreams"?

3. Where does Hughes get the title "Feet of Jesus" from for that particular section in "Selected Poems of Langston Hughes"?

4. When does the musician finally stop playing in "The Weary Blues"?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 220 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample