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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. Where is the speaker stuck between in "Border Line"?
(a) Harlem and Queens.
(b) His wife's house and his girlfriend's house.
(c) Living and dying.
(d) A rock and a hard place.

2. What annoying habit of his Baby does the speaker address in "Morning After"?
(a) Leaving dishes out all the time.
(b) Sneezing.
(c) Snoring.
(d) Drooling.

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

4. What did the speaker's lover also pawn when he/she pawned the speaker's watch?
(a) Brain.
(b) Sanity.
(c) Heart.
(d) Youth.

5. Where does Aunt Sue get her stories from in "Aunt Sue's Stories"?
(a) The TV.
(b) The radio.
(c) A book.
(d) Her own life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the speaker's mother say when life hurt her in the poem "Spirituals"?

2. What women are surrounding the speaker in "Sylvester's Dying Bed"?

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

4. Where is Happiness in "Heaven"?

5. What race was Langston Hughes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a Black Maria?

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

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

4. What exactly is "jazz style" poetry?

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

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

7. What kind of imagery is most prevalent in the poems in the section "Sea and Land"?

8. How does the speaker describe a dream in "Beale Street"?

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

10. What is the musician singing about in "The Weary Blues"?

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