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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section XI: Madam to You.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What inappropriate fashion item do the pimps wear in "What?"
(a) Summer hats into late fall.
(b) Horizontal stripes.
(c) White shoes after Labor Day.
(d) Baseball caps indoors.

2. What did the speaker come home without in "Midnight Raffle"?
(a) A dime.
(b) A briefcase.
(c) The groceries his wife asked him to buy.
(d) A job.

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

4. What "mellows to a golden note" in "Trumpet Player"?
(a) Trouble.
(b) Music.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Rage.

5. What is all that a snail knows in "Snail"?
(a) Sunrise and sunset.
(b) Shell and no shell.
(c) The bottom of people's shoes.
(d) Weather and rose.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does the speaker NOT claim to have been in "Negro"?

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

3. In the poem "Fire," who does the author say he has had more women than?

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

5. What color does the speaker in "Wake" tell his mourners to wear?

(see the answer key)

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