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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section XIII: Words Like Freedom.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the speaker prefer older women in "Preference"?
(a) Because they don't get mad if he cheats.
(b) Because they take care of him better.
(c) Because they don't get mad so easily.
(d) Because they have more money since they're older.

2. In "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," where does the speaker say he has been over time?
(a) The Euphrates.
(b) All of these answers are correct.
(c) The Nile.
(d) The Congo.

3. What kind of pain does the woman feel in "Strange Hurt"?
(a) A "queer" pain.
(b) A "heart" pain.
(c) A "Godlike" pain.
(d) A "silent" pain.

4. Who is playing music in "The Weary Blues"?
(a) A white woman.
(b) A black woman.
(c) A black man.
(d) A white man.

5. What does the woman's pain tell her to do in "Strange Hurt"?
(a) "Walk through the fire / To better know the rain."
(b) "Go outside / To understand your inner turmoil."
(c) "You'll find rain better / Than shelter from the rain."
(d) "Bathe in the river / As those before you have done."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker compare love to in "Lament over Love"?

2. How does the character in "Migrant" sign his paycheck?

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

4. What does the speaker encourage the reader to wonder about when down by the river?

5. What is the one thing the fortune teller in "Ballad of the Fortune Teller" couldn't see?

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