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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. When was "Selected Poems of Langston Hughes" published?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1859.

2. How does the speaker describe the trumpet player's music in "Trumpet Player"?
(a) Like "a sick cat / Crying for the final dawn."
(b) Like "honey / Mixed with liquid fire."
(c) Like "angel's voice / Filled with sorrow."
(d) Like "mother's voice / Through the darkest of nights."

3. What did the speaker's lover do in "Late Last Night" that caused his/her heart to break?
(a) Look at him/her cross-eyed.
(b) Had an affair.
(c) Died.
(d) Lost all their money gambling.

4. What is the speaker tired of in "One-Way Ticket"?
(a) All of these answers are correct.
(b) Jim Crow laws.
(c) Lynching.
(d) People who are afraid of him.

5. How does the speaker describe the plants in "Garden"?
(a) As strange and distorted.
(b) As beautiful and relaxing.
(c) As boring and ignorant.
(d) As angry and ugly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Indian merchantman doing in "Seascape"?

2. In "As I Grew Older," what does the speaker say he had nearly forgotten?

3. What is the title of the poem about John Brown in the "Afro-American Fragments" section?

4. What does Ruby Brown do for a living by the time the poem of her same name concludes?

5. What is the sign that the speaker of "Bad Morning" is indeed having a bad morning?

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