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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the speaker's mother say when life hurt her in the poem "Spirituals"?
(a) "Gonna get even, just you wait!"
(b) "Bless her soul, I can't forgive."
(c) "Gonna ride in my chariot some day!"
(d) "Ain't no sinner like a mean sinner!"

3. Which two countries are mentioned in "Seascape"?
(a) Ireland and England.
(b) Peru and England.
(c) Peru and Cuba.
(d) American and Russia.

4. What does the speaker say the sea is a wilderness of in "Long Trip"?
(a) Of beauty.
(b) Of animals.
(c) Of all of God's creations.
(d) Of waves.

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

6. What does the title "Litany" refer to?
(a) A city in the South.
(b) A prayer.
(c) A city in Africa.
(d) All of these answers are correct.

7. What did the speaker's lover do in "Late Last Night" that caused his/her heart to break?
(a) Died.
(b) Look at him/her cross-eyed.
(c) Lost all their money gambling.
(d) Had an affair.

8. 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) "Bathe in the river / As those before you have done."
(d) "You'll find rain better / Than shelter from the rain."

9. Who sends the speaker a letter in "Personal"?
(a) His wife.
(b) His mother.
(c) God.
(d) The devil.

10. What does the speaker comment about one's mother in "Reverie on the Harlem River"?
(a) That she is always nagging him.
(b) That she is dead and gone.
(c) That there was no one like her.
(d) None of these answers is correct.

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

12. What time does the speaker mention going down to the river in "Reverie on the Harlem River"?
(a) Ten p.m.
(b) Five a.m.
(c) Two a.m.
(d) Three p.m.

13. Where does the playboy mentioned in "Gone Boy" NOT go at the end of the poem?
(a) Work.
(b) Home.
(c) The grocery store.
(d) His parents' house.

14. Who shows the speaker a bad luck card in "Bad Luck Card"?
(a) A relative.
(b) A gypsy.
(c) A priest.
(d) A random person on the street.

15. In the poem "Feet o' Jesus," what does the author want to happen at Jesus's feet?
(a) His wife to say yes to his marriage proposal.
(b) God to give him riches.
(c) God to show mercy.
(d) His crops to sprout.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the speaker's lover in "Lover's Return" come home to do?

2. In "Sunday Morning Prophecy," where does the preacher encourage the congregants to give freely?

3. What are the waves kissing in "Moonlight Night: Carmel"?

4. Where is the speaker stuck between in "Border Line"?

5. Where is the dream a cocktail at in "Havana Dreams"?

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