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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) Their silver shanks.
(b) Thier bioluminescent spheres.
(c) An eerie silence.
(d) The sounds of their crashes.

2. What does the word "tom-toms" refer to in "Danse Africaine"?
(a) Drums.
(b) Fruits.
(c) Shoes.
(d) Drawings.

3. In "Water-Front Streets," where does the speaker claim to carry "beauties"?
(a) In his diary.
(b) In his photo album.
(c) In his heart and dreams.
(d) In his mind and soul.

4. Who is the song for in "Genius Child"?
(a) The average child.
(b) A former professor of the speaker.
(c) A student.
(d) The genius child himself.

5. What color does the speaker in "Wake" tell his mourners to wear?
(a) White.
(b) Red.
(c) Black.
(d) Pink

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the poems in "Selected Poems of Langston Hughes" organized?

2. Where does Aunt Sue get her stories from in "Aunt Sue's Stories"?

3. Who is playing music in "The Weary Blues"?

4. What is Hughes known as being the originator of?

5. In "Sunday Morning Prophecy," where does the preacher encourage the congregants to give freely?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does the speaker want people to wear red in "Wake"?

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

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

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

6. What is the poem "Fulfilment" about?

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

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

9. Why is the "After Hours" section of "Selected Poems of Langston Hughes" named what it is?

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

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