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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 job does Ruby Brown have when the poem of her same name starts?
(a) Working at a hospital.
(b) Working in a library.
(c) Working in the fields.
(d) Working in a white woman's kitchen.

2. What is the Indian merchantman doing in "Seascape"?
(a) Being buried.
(b) Going out to sea.
(c) Coming home.
(d) Getting married.

3. What does the Gypsy need in her hand in "Ballad of the Gypsy" before she reads the speaker's fortune?
(a) Silver.
(b) Wine.
(c) Bread.
(d) Gold.

4. Who is the song for in "Genius Child"?
(a) A student.
(b) A former professor of the speaker.
(c) The genius child himself.
(d) The average child.

5. What asked the speaker for a kiss in "Suicide's Note"?
(a) An ugly woman.
(b) A frog.
(c) The river.
(d) A beautiful man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one way Sylvester knows he is dying in "Sylvester's Dying Bed"?

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

3. What do the blues prevent the speaker from doing in "Miss Blues'es Child"?

4. What does the speaker in "Misery" wish to hear?

5. What does the speaker say life is as fine as in "Life Is Fine"?

(see the answer key)

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