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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 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.

2. What nickname does Sylvester give himself in "Sylvester's Dying Bed"?
(a) Sweet Papa 'Vester.
(b) Sylvest the Best.
(c) Saint Sylvester.
(d) Sly Syl.

3. What did the speaker do with his nickel in "Midnight Raffle"?
(a) Invest it.
(b) Take his wife to a midnight movie.
(c) Use it to catch a cab at midnight.
(d) Put it in a raffle.

4. What is Hughes known as being the originator of?
(a) African American poetry.
(b) Jazz poetry.
(c) Modernist poetry.
(d) Slam poetry.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the poem "Catch," what is Big Boy carrying on his shoulders?

3. What is all that a snail knows in "Snail"?

4. What is the title of the poem about John Brown in the "Afro-American Fragments" section?

5. What is the sign that the speaker of "Bad Morning" is indeed having a bad morning?

Short Essay Questions

1. What exactly is the "amen-corner" mentioned in the poem "Prayer-Meeting"?

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

3. What is the Harlem Renaissance known for?

4. What advice does the gypsy give the speaker in "Bad Luck Card"?

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

6. Why do some African-Americans have a complicated relationship with Christianity, at least as is represented in "Selected Poems of Langston Hughes"?

7. In "Afro-American Fragment" (the poem), what does the author imply is being fragmented?

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 does the speaker of the poem "End" think about the passageway between states of existence?

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

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