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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the speaker claim people do on the sea in "Long Trip"?
(a) Flip and fly.
(b) Sail and wail.
(c) Dip and dive.
(d) Swim and float.

2. What is the Indian merchantman doing in "Seascape"?
(a) Getting married.
(b) Coming home.
(c) Being buried.
(d) Going out to sea.

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

4. What is one common theme in the poems presented in the "Feet o' Jesus" section of "Selected Poems of Langston Hughes"?
(a) Money.
(b) Religion.
(c) Fame.
(d) New York City.

5. How does the woman in "Strange Hurt" wander in the cold during winter?
(a) Loudly.
(b) Scared.
(c) Naked.
(d) Terrified.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the speaker's lover do in "Late Last Night" that caused his/her heart to break?

2. In "Angels Wings," what does the speaker say the angel's wings are as white as?

3. Who does Hughes dedicate "Selected Poems of Langston Hughes" to?

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

5. Who is the song for in "Genius Child"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the poem "Drum" portray Death's eventuality as?

2. Who is gathered up in the poem "Litany"?

3. What kind of feeling does "Dream Variations" help the "Afro-American Fragment" section conclude with?

4. What does the use of the word "fragment" in a poem title imply?

5. Why is the speaker so surprised by his girlfriend's snoring in "Morning After"?

6. What are the two characters quarreling about in "Early Evening Quarrel"?

7. What kinds of objects are referenced in "Spirituals"?

8. What do many of the poems in the "Afro-American Fragment" section of "Selected Poems of Langston Hughes" have an undercurrent of?

9. What kind of tour does Hughes take the reader on in "Sea and Land"?

10. What theme unites the poems in "Distance Nowhere"?

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