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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does the speaker describe the trumpet player's music in "Trumpet Player"?
2. When does the musician finally stop playing in "The Weary Blues"?
3. How does the woman in "Strange Hurt" wander in the cold during winter?
4. What are the tambourines being played for in "Tambourines"?
5. In the poem "Fire," who does the author say he has had more women than?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the poem "Fulfilment" about?
2. What do many of the poems in the "Afro-American Fragment" section of "Selected Poems of Langston Hughes" have an undercurrent of?
3. What advice does the gypsy give the speaker in "Bad Luck Card"?
4. For how long does the speaker in "Evil" plan to "keep on at it"?
5. Why does the speaker want people to wear red in "Wake"?
6. What kind of tour does Hughes take the reader on in "Sea and Land"?
7. What exactly is the "amen-corner" mentioned in the poem "Prayer-Meeting"?
8. Who is gathered up in the poem "Litany"?
9. Why does the preacher in "Sunday Morning Prophecy" want congregants to give freely into the collection basket?
10. What does Hughes write in the introduction before the poem "Sunday Morning Prophecy" begins?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Choose 2 poems in one section of "Selected Poems of Langston Hughes" and compare and contrast the imagery in each.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss 3 rhetorical devices Hughes uses to transform the historical person Billie Holiday to the literary person in the poem of the same name.
Essay Topic 3
Analyze 1) the tone of "50-50," 2) the relationship between the two characters in the poem, and 3) how the tone helps the reader better understand the relationship dynamics between these two characters. Make sure to include direct quotations from the poem to support your well-written thesis statement.
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