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

2. What does the speaker say is a strong thing in "Spirituals"?
(a) Water.
(b) Song.
(c) Nature.
(d) Hatred.

3. What "mellows to a golden note" in "Trumpet Player"?
(a) Rage.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Music.
(d) Trouble.

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) Fame.
(c) Religion.
(d) New York City.

5. What does the woman's pain tell her to do in "Strange Hurt"?
(a) "Go outside / To understand your inner turmoil."
(b) "Walk through the fire / To better know the rain."
(c) "Bathe in the river / As those before you have done."
(d) "You'll find rain better / Than shelter from the rain."

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the speaker specifically describe the tulips in "Garden"?

2. What does the speaker say the sea is a wilderness of in "Long Trip"?

3. How does the woman in "Strange Hurt" wander in the cold during winter?

4. What time does the speaker mention going down to the river in "Reverie on the Harlem River"?

5. What language, other than English, is used in the poem "Havana Dreams"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a Black Maria?

2. For how long does the speaker in "Evil" plan to "keep on at it"?

3. What is the poem "Fulfilment" about?

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

5. What are the Lincoln Prairies symbolic of in "One"?

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

7. What does Hughes write in the introduction before the poem "Sunday Morning Prophecy" begins?

8. What simile is used in "Lover's Return"?

9. What is the unspoken implication about Monroe in "Monroe's Blues"?

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

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