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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" - "Let America Be America Again".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What term does Hughes use to describe the Mexican Market Woman in the first line of the poem of the same title?
(a) Crone.
(b) Queen.
(c) Seer.
(d) Hag.

3. An allusion to which famous person is NOT included within the poem entitled "Scottsboro"?
(a) Joan of Arc.
(b) Lenin.
(c) Nat Turner.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

4. The poem entitled "Share-Croppers" has stanzas that contain how many lines within each?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 8.
(d) 3.

5. The poem entitled "Good Morning Revolution" relies upon which literary device throughout the entirety of the poem?
(a) Personification.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Understatement.
(d) Onomatopeia.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does the speaker of the poem "The Negro Mother" speak?

2. What advice does the gypsy give to the speaker of the poem entitled "Bad Luck Card"?

3. The poem "I, Too" is a response to a poem by which famous American poet?

4. In the poem "Midnight Dancer," Hughes uses what object to act as a simile involving breasts?

5. The speaker of the poem "The South" says at the end of the poem that he will soon seek the North, for he has heard it said that the North is what?

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