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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What women are surrounding the speaker in "Sylvester's Dying Bed"?
(a) "Mother Mary, sweet angel of mine."
(b) "All the womens in the town."
(c) "The two best women I ever did meet."
(d) "My mama and wife, lights of my life."

2. What does the speaker say is a strong thing in "Spirituals"?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Water.
(c) Song.
(d) Nature.

3. What are the waves cutting the darkness with in "Moonlight Night: Carmel"?
(a) An eerie silence.
(b) The sounds of their crashes.
(c) Their silver shanks.
(d) Thier bioluminescent spheres.

4. What is "Prayer Meeting" an example of?
(a) A vignette.
(b) Speaking in tongues.
(c) Iambic pentameter.
(d) Old English.

5. What inanimate object speaks in "Heaven"?
(a) Waterfalls.
(b) Books.
(c) Stones.
(d) Trees.

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

7. What is the drum saying to life in "Drum"?
(a) "Go! / Go!"
(b) "Come! / Come!"
(c) "Run! / Run!"
(d) "Stay! / Stay!"

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

9. What is one way Sylvester knows he is dying in "Sylvester's Dying Bed"?
(a) He hears Jesus talking to him.
(b) He saw it earlier in a dream.
(c) He sees the River Jordan.
(d) He doesn't feel any more pain.

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

11. What race was Langston Hughes?
(a) Latino.
(b) African American.
(c) White.
(d) Asian.

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

13. When did Langston Hughes live?
(a) 1902 - 1964.
(b) 1935 - 1998.
(c) 1802 - 1864.
(d) 1960 - 2003.

14. In the poem "Fire," who does the author say he has had more women than?
(a) Than the president had votes.
(b) Than Pharoah had wives.
(c) Than the forest had trees.
(d) Than the gardener had tomatoes.

15. What are the tambourines being played for in "Tambourines"?
(a) Peace.
(b) Glory.
(c) A funeral.
(d) A wedding.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is curved beneath Big Boy's arm in "Catch"?

2. What is Langston Hughes known for?

3. What does the speaker see in "Seascape"?

4. Where does the playboy mentioned in "Gone Boy" NOT go at the end of the poem?

5. What does Big Boy want his woman to share with him in "50-50"?

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