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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. What will cause others to feel ashamed in "I, Too"?
(a) When they see how beautiful the speaker is.
(b) When they see how cruelly they have treated everyone else.
(c) When they see how much money the speaker has.
(d) When they see how much food they have wasted.

2. How does the speaker refer to Africa in "Africa"?
(a) As the "motherland of mothers."
(b) As a "sleepy giant."
(c) As a "angry mistress."
(d) As the "land of my history and memory."

3. What did Hattie want Hammond to buy when he was out?
(a) Butter.
(b) Bread.
(c) Sugar.
(d) Wine.

4. What place is the speaker trying to avoid in "One-Way Ticket"?
(a) His girlfriend's house.
(b) The South.
(c) His mother's house.
(d) The police station.

5. What is the title of the poem about John Brown in the "Afro-American Fragments" section?
(a) Brown John.
(b) John Brown.
(c) October 16.
(d) Mississippi Burning.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are people meeting to plan the parade in "Parade"?

2. How does the speaker describe the plants in "Garden"?

3. Which two countries are mentioned in "Seascape"?

4. What inanimate object speaks in "Heaven"?

5. What 2 places does the speaker go to in "Young Gal's Blues"?

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