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

2. Where is the speaker stuck between in "Border Line"?
(a) A rock and a hard place.
(b) His wife's house and his girlfriend's house.
(c) Living and dying.
(d) Harlem and Queens.

3. In "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," what does the speaker say his souls has done similar to a river?
(a) Washed everything clean.
(b) Flown with anger.
(c) Grown deep.
(d) Rushed to the ocean.

4. In "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," where does the speaker say he has been over time?
(a) The Congo.
(b) The Nile.
(c) The Euphrates.
(d) All of these answers are correct.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of pain does the woman feel in "Strange Hurt"?

2. Why is the speaker so concerned about her lover in "Lover's Return"?

3. Who is playing music in "The Weary Blues"?

4. Who selected the poems in "Selected Poems of Langston Hughes"?

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

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