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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Island [2]" - "Un-American Investigators".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The poem in the collection that focuses on Frederick Douglass has a title listing what years?
(a) 1834-1876,
(b) 1817-1895.
(c) 1895-1965.
(d) 1901-1972.

2. What type of literary device is used consistently within the first three lines of the poem entitled "Mississippi"?
(a) Allusion.
(b) Understatement.
(c) Interjection.
(d) Hyperbole.

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

4. The poem "I, Too" is a response to a poem by which famous American poet?
(a) Walt Whitman.
(b) e.e. cummings.
(c) Allen Ginsberg.
(d) William Carlos Williams.

5. About whom is the speaker of the poem "Silent One" speaking?
(a) His son.
(b) Her daughter.
(c) Her son.
(d) His daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. The mother character in the poem entitled "Without Benefit of Declaration" receives what object in lieu of her son?

2. The poem entitled "Love" describes the emotion of love as what kind of a wonder?

3. The speaker of the poem entitled "Advice" says that "birthing is" (97) what?

4. The speaker of the poem entitled "Good Morning Revolution" suggests that the different countries named in the poem join together to sign what collective name?

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

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