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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "In Time of Silver Rain" - "Fulfillment".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the poem "Midnight Dancer," Hughes uses what object to act as a simile involving breasts?
(a) Cups of black coffee.
(b) Aquamarines.
(c) Clouds.
(d) Pillows.

2. What is written on the back of the letter featured within the poem entitled "Little Old Letter"?
(a) The name of the speaker's lover.
(b) The word goodbye.
(c) Nothing.
(d) The speaker's name.

3. How much money does the subject of the poem "Brass Spittoons" make per day?
(a) $1.
(b) $2.
(c) 50 cents.
(d) $3.

4. When the speaker of the poem "Sylvester's Dying Bed" wakes up, by whom is he surrounded?
(a) Lovers.
(b) Family members.
(c) Doctors.
(d) Women from the town.

5. The speaker of the poem "Merry-Go-Round" asks about the whereabouts of what section on the Merry-Go-Round?
(a) The Jim Crow section.
(b) The colored section.
(c) The dragon section.
(d) The children's section.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the fortune teller's lover in the poem entitled "Ballad of the Fortune Teller"?

2. What is NOT a theme depicted in the poem entitled "Freedom's Plow"?

3. The poem entitled "A Black Pierrot" uses what literary device in crafting the first line of each stanza?

4. The speaker of the poem entitled "The South" says that the South smells of what scent?

5. In the poem entitled "Words Like Freedom," what other word in the poem is italicized, besides the word "freedom" (67)?

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