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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 does the speaker comment about one's mother in "Reverie on the Harlem River"?
(a) That there was no one like her.
(b) That she is always nagging him.
(c) None of these answers is correct.
(d) That she is dead and gone.

2. How large is the house that Madam has to clean in "Madam and Her Madam"?
(a) This is a trick question; there is no house mentioned in this poem.
(b) Five rooms plus a spare apartment.
(c) One room.
(d) Twelve rooms.

3. Where did the speaker in "Late Last Night" sit and cry?
(a) In the garden.
(b) At the cemetary.
(c) At the bank.
(d) On the steps.

4. How does the character in "Migrant" sign his paycheck?
(a) With "a crayon, just like a child."
(b) With his own blood.
(c) In "uphill letters."
(d) With his family's famous pen.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one common theme in the poems presented in the "Feet o' Jesus" section of "Selected Poems of Langston Hughes"?

2. Which of the following is NOT listed as a job Madam has to do in "Madam and Her Madam"?

3. What does the speaker pick up and take away in "One-Way Ticket"?

4. What does the speaker claim people do on the sea in "Long Trip"?

5. What does the speaker hope for her child in the poem "Lament over Love"?

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