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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the poem "Harlem Night Song," the speaker repeats that he wants the listener to perform what action with him?
(a) To win.
(b) To lose.
(c) To roam.
(d) To cry.

2. In what position is the subject of the poem "Troubled Woman"?
(a) She is floating in the air.
(b) She is lying down.
(c) She is standing.
(d) She is sitting.

3. The poem entitled "Cross" focuses on the experience of what type of person?
(a) Enslaved.
(b) Religious.
(c) Developmentally disabled.
(d) Biracial.

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

5. The poem entitled "Share-Croppers" contains how many stanzas?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 3.
(d) 8.

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

7. Mary Lulu Jackson is the subject of which poem?
(a) The Negro Speaks of Rivers.
(b) Harlem [2].
(c) I, Too.
(d) Graduation.

8. Who is the speaker of the poem entitled "Madam and the Rent Man"?
(a) The tenant.
(b) The landlord.
(c) The landlord's mother.
(d) The tenant's son.

9. The titular character in the poem entitled "Ruby Brown" leaves her job as a maid to take what other position?
(a) An actress.
(b) A waitress.
(c) A laundress.
(d) A prostitute.

10. The poem entitled "Snail" states that the snail knows two things. What are they?
(a) Sky and sand.
(b) Sun and rain.
(c) Weather and roses.
(d) Roses and grass.

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

12. What is the middle initial of the speaker in the poem "Madam's Past History"?
(a) L.
(b) K.
(c) A.
(d) Y.

13. What type of literary device is used throughout the poem entitled "Joy"?
(a) Allusion.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Personification.
(d) Onomatopeia.

14. What is NOT a type of textual inclusion used within the lengthy poem entitled "Let America Be America Again"?
(a) Semicolons.
(b) Exclamation points.
(c) Italics.
(d) Parentheses.

15. What event occurred to stop the speaker of the poem "Madam's Past History" from running her first business?
(a) Prohibition.
(b) The Depression.
(c) World War I.
(d) World War II.

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker of the poem "Merry-Go-Round" asks about the whereabouts of what section on the Merry-Go-Round?

2. The speaker of the poem "Heart of Harlem" describes Harlem as "the kid you hope will grow up" (73) what?

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

4. The poem with a title that includes the words "The Raid" (33) also includes what date?

5. The speaker of the poem "Negro" states that he has been a singer "all the way from Africa" (5) to where?

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