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

2. What did the speaker's lover in "Lover's Return" come home to do?
(a) Die.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Cook.
(d) Cry.

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

4. How does the speaker describe the plants in "Garden"?
(a) As beautiful and relaxing.
(b) As strange and distorted.
(c) As angry and ugly.
(d) As boring and ignorant.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the waves kissing in "Moonlight Night: Carmel"?

2. What nickname does Sylvester give himself in "Sylvester's Dying Bed"?

3. What country is NOT mentioned in any of the poems in "Sea and Land"?

4. How does the speaker describe the trumpet player's music in "Trumpet Player"?

5. What is missing from the wall in "End"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of feeling does "Dream Variations" help the "Afro-American Fragment" section conclude with?

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

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

4. What is the poem "Fulfilment" about?

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

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

7. What theme unites the poems in "Distance Nowhere"?

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

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

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

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