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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 asked the speaker for a kiss in "Suicide's Note"?
(a) A beautiful man.
(b) The river.
(c) An ugly woman.
(d) A frog.
2. Where is the dream a cocktail at in "Havana Dreams"?
(a) Bros'.
(b) Moe's.
(c) No one knows.
(d) Sloppy Joe's.
3. What does the trumpet player have beneath his eyes in "Trumpet Player"?
(a) "The shining light of an angel."
(b) "Dark moons of weariness."
(c) "The guilt of sins from yesterday."
(d) "The glow of a man on fire inside."
4. What "mellows to a golden note" in "Trumpet Player"?
(a) Trouble.
(b) Music.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Rage.
5. Where is the speaker stuck between in "Border Line"?
(a) His wife's house and his girlfriend's house.
(b) Living and dying.
(c) Harlem and Queens.
(d) A rock and a hard place.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does the speaker describe the trumpet player's music in "Trumpet Player"?
2. What does the title "Litany" refer to?
3. How does the speaker describe the plants in "Garden"?
4. What are the waves cutting the darkness with in "Moonlight Night: Carmel"?
5. What is one way Sylvester knows he is dying in "Sylvester's Dying Bed"?
Short Essay Questions
1. What exactly is the Black Pierrot mentioned in the poem of the same name?
2. What advice does the gypsy give the speaker in "Bad Luck Card"?
3. What is the unspoken implication about Monroe in "Monroe's Blues"?
4. What kind of feeling does "Dream Variations" help the "Afro-American Fragment" section conclude with?
5. What are the Lincoln Prairies symbolic of in "One"?
6. What does the use of the word "fragment" in a poem title imply?
7. What does the speaker of the poem "End" think about the passageway between states of existence?
8. Why does the preacher in "Sunday Morning Prophecy" want congregants to give freely into the collection basket?
9. What is a Black Maria?
10. What exactly is "jazz style" poetry?
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