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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 claim is such a bore in "Ennui"?
(a) Being poor.
(b) Snores.
(c) Stores.
(d) Chores.
2. What does the speaker claim he, too, would do if he were a Gypsy?
(a) Wear beautiful, handmade clothes.
(b) Be psychic.
(c) Steal people's money.
(d) Travel the world.
3. What in particular does the speaker need a dime for in "Down and Out"?
(a) To see a movie.
(b) Cleaning supplies.
(c) A beer.
(d) New shoes.
4. What does the speaker in "Cross" wish in regard to his mother?
(a) He wishes she would just die so he can get his inheritance.
(b) He wishes she finds happiness one day.
(c) He wishes her well.
(d) He wishes she would just die so she doesn't have to suffer anymore.
5. What is the name of the character in "Graduation"?
(a) Mary Beth Wilson.
(b) Mary Lulu Jackson.
(c) Jackson Bartlet.
(d) Jackson Barton.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does the speaker in "Necessity" finally decide he has to work after all?
2. Which of the following is NOT listed as a job Madam has to do in "Madam and Her Madam"?
3. What 2 places does the speaker go to in "Young Gal's Blues"?
4. What question does the number runner ask Madam in "Madam and the Number Writer"?
5. What would the speaker in "Young Gal's Blues" rather be dead than?
Short Essay Questions
1. What one notable thing does the poem "Daybreak" address in the "Magnolia Flowers" section that the others do not?
2. How does Madam prefer to handle her suitors?
3. Which famous line of Langston Hughes is in "Harlem"?
4. What is the common tone of the pieces in "Life Is Fine"?
5. What does the speaker in "High to Low" accuse the "low" African-Americans of doing?
6. What is the reader left to assume about how Madam makes money in the poems about her?
7. Why do some of the women in the "Lament Over Love" section claim to still participate in bad relationships with men?
8. How does the speaker compare his relationship with the South and the North in "The South"?
9. What comparison is made in "Me and the Mule"?
10. What is the commonality between all of the poems in "Lament Over Love"?
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