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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 is the sign that the speaker of "Bad Morning" is indeed having a bad morning?
(a) Mismated shoes.
(b) A note from his lover saying she's leaving.
(c) A broken-down car.
(d) Too many bills on the kitchen table.

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

3. What caused Madam to abandon her barbecue stand?
(a) Being mixed up with a no-good man.
(b) A fire from her huge barbecue pit.
(c) Bankruptcy.
(d) She just got bored and tired with it.

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

5. What does the speaker claim "Madam" stands for in "Madam's Past History"?
(a) Business.
(b) Mother.
(c) Professor.
(d) Doctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of cadence is "The Weary Blues" written in?

2. Where does the playboy mentioned in "Gone Boy" NOT go at the end of the poem?

3. How are the poems in "Selected Poems of Langston Hughes" organized?

4. How does the woman in "Strange Hurt" wander in the cold during winter?

5. In "Little Old Letter," the speaker claims never to have been so lonely since when?

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