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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “Dream Dust” - “Same in Blues”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What musician is NOT alluded to within the poem entitled "Projection"?
(a) Billie Holiday.
(b) Dizzy Gillespie.
(c) Sammy Davis.
(d) Jackie Mabley.

2. What two adjectives are part of the poem titled using two words prior to the title's final word, "freedom" (67)?
(a) Long laboring.
(b) Words like.
(c) Mighty sad.
(d) Little old.

3. The speaker of the poem entitled "Advice" says that "birthing is" (97) what?
(a) Quick.
(b) Long.
(c) Hard.
(d) Ancient history.

4. The poem entitled "A Black Pierrot" uses what literary device in crafting the first line of each stanza?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Onomatopeia.
(c) Personification.
(d) Repetition.

5. The speaker of the poem entitled "Advice" says that "dying is" (97) what?
(a) Mean.
(b) Slow.
(c) Inevitable.
(d) Hard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word is spelled out at the end of the poem entitled "Dream Boogie"?

2. The speaker of the poem "Final Curve" declares that "When you turn the corner and run into" (91) what, then you know you have run out of corners to turn?

3. What kind of job does Mary Lulu Jackson tell her mother she would like to have?

4. The daughter within the poem entitled "Mama and Daughter" is on her way to see whom?

5. The speaker of the poem "Juke Box Love Song" states that he will "make a crown" (95) using what materials?

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