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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. In "Water-Front Streets," where does the speaker claim to carry "beauties"?
2. In "Sunday Morning Prophecy," where does the preacher encourage the congregants to give freely?
3. In "As I Grew Older," what does the speaker say he had nearly forgotten?
4. What annoying habit of his Baby does the speaker address in "Morning After"?
5. What did the speaker's lover also pawn when he/she pawned the speaker's watch?
Short Essay Questions
1. What theme unites the poems in "Distance Nowhere"?
2. In "Afro-American Fragment" (the poem), what does the author imply is being fragmented?
3. What does Hughes write in the introduction before the poem "Sunday Morning Prophecy" begins?
4. Why does the preacher in "Sunday Morning Prophecy" want congregants to give freely into the collection basket?
5. Who is gathered up in the poem "Litany"?
6. Why is the speaker so surprised by his girlfriend's snoring in "Morning After"?
7. For how long does the speaker in "Evil" plan to "keep on at it"?
8. What is the unspoken implication about Monroe in "Monroe's Blues"?
9. What exactly is "jazz style" poetry?
10. What exactly is the "amen-corner" mentioned in the poem "Prayer-Meeting"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Find three examples of personification in "Selected Poems of Langston Hughes" and discuss how and why Hughes uses each in the manner that he does.
Essay Topic 2
Analyze the preacher that appears in "Sunday Morning Prophecy." Is he a good preacher? Bad preacher? Are his efforts to encourage his congregants to give freely in the collection plate altruistic or greedy? Is he helpful or judgmental (or both) of his congregants and congregation?
Essay Topic 3
Select one poem from "Selected Poems of Langston Hughes" and discuss 1) why Hughes gave it the title he did and 2) what Hughes wants to convey through the title of that poem.
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