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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section IX: Magnolia Flowers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Hattie want Hammond to buy when he was out?
(a) Butter.
(b) Wine.
(c) Bread.
(d) Sugar.

2. Where is Miss Michaelmas in "Southern Mammy Sings"?
(a) At a funeral.
(b) At mass.
(c) In her yard.
(d) In her garden.

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

4. What is Hughes known as being the originator of?
(a) African American poetry.
(b) Jazz poetry.
(c) Slam poetry.
(d) Modernist poetry.

5. What does the speaker wonder about his own death in "Cross"?
(a) If anyone will even notice.
(b) Where he will die.
(c) Who will get his inheritance.
(d) Who will mourn for him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is missing from the wall in "End"?

2. What does the speaker say the sea is a wilderness of in "Long Trip"?

3. What inanimate object speaks in "Heaven"?

4. How does the speaker first attempt suicide in "Life Is Fine"?

5. Where did the speaker in "Late Last Night" sit and cry?

(see the answer key)

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