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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of job does Mary Lulu Jackson tell her mother she would like to have?
(a) A milliner.
(b) A bookseller.
(c) A typist.
(d) A nurse.

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

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

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

5. What is the name of the fortune teller's lover in the poem entitled "Ballad of the Fortune Teller"?
(a) Michael.
(b) Wade.
(c) Jeff.
(d) Dave.

6. To what personality does the speaker of the poem "Heart of Harlem" NOT allude within the poem?
(a) W.E.B. DuBois.
(b) Marian Anderson.
(c) Joe Louis.
(d) Muhammed Ali.

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

8. About what type of violence does the poem entitled "Who but the Lord" revolve?
(a) Police brutality.
(b) Domestic violence.
(c) Military operations.
(d) Schoolyard bullying.

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

10. The speaker of the poem entitled "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" uses a simile to state that what object of his has "grown deep like the rivers" (3)?
(a) His mind.
(b) His passion.
(c) His soul.
(d) His aura.

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

12. What advice does the gypsy give to the speaker of the poem entitled "Bad Luck Card"?
(a) To pray.
(b) To place a knife underneath his bed.
(c) To find a lover.
(d) To commit suicide.

13. In the poem "I Dream a World," to what object does the speaker compare joy by using a simile?
(a) A diamond.
(b) An emerald.
(c) A piece of beach glass.
(d) A pearl.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the speaker of the poem "Sylvester's Dying Bed" wakes up, by whom is he surrounded?

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

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

4. What is the main metaphor running through the narrative of the poem "Mother to Son"?

5. The second poem within Vintage Hughes focuses on the stories of whom?

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