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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. Which continent features most prominently in "Selected Poems of Langston Hughes"?
(a) South America.
(b) Africa.
(c) Europe.
(d) Asia.

2. What did the speaker's lover in "Lover's Return" come home to do?
(a) Cook.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Cry.
(d) Die.

3. What inappropriate fashion item do the pimps wear in "What?"
(a) White shoes after Labor Day.
(b) Baseball caps indoors.
(c) Summer hats into late fall.
(d) Horizontal stripes.

4. What is all that a snail knows in "Snail"?
(a) Weather and rose.
(b) Sunrise and sunset.
(c) The bottom of people's shoes.
(d) Shell and no shell.

5. What does the little boy use as a toy in "Madam and the Charity Child"?
(a) A switch-blade.
(b) Dolls.
(c) Rocks.
(d) The trash can.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which color hands are NOT mentioned in "Daybreak in Alabama"?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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