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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. What does the speaker wonder about his own death in "Cross"?
2. Why doesn't the speaker in "Preference" like younger girls?
3. What four things does the speaker in "Necessity" say he must do (in the beginning of the poem)?
4. Which of the following is NOT listed as a job Madam has to do in "Madam and Her Madam"?
5. What place is the speaker trying to avoid in "One-Way Ticket"?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Madam prefer to handle her suitors?
2. What is the history of the word "mulatto," as evidenced in the poem of the same name?
3. How do the poems in "Life Is Fine" treat life's trials and tribulations?
4. Why does the speaker in "Third Degree" confess to police?
5. What problem does the U.S. Census worker have with Madam in "Madam and the Census Man"?
6. What is the speaker talking about in "Note on Commercial Theater"?
7. What does the speaker in "High to Low" accuse the "low" African-Americans of doing?
8. What comparison is made in "Me and the Mule"?
9. What major themes are present in the poems included in "Montage of a Dream Deferred"?
10. What one notable thing does the poem "Daybreak" address in the "Magnolia Flowers" section that the others do not?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast 2 poems in "Magnolia Flowers" and at least 3 rhetorical devices each uses to address life in the American South.
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
Analyze 3 ways a poem of your choosing from "Selected Poems of Langston Hughes" reflects the themes and styles of the Harlem Renaissance.
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