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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For what reason does the speaker of the poem "Madam and the Rent Man" refuse to pay rent?

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

3. What type of business had the speaker of the poem "Madam's Past History" run for a while before moving on to a different business?

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

5. The poem entitled "Share-Croppers" has stanzas that contain how many lines within each?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are sensory details incorporated into the poem "Daybreak in Alabama" and for what purpose?

2. In what way are the themes of brutality and oppression intertwined within the poem "Ku Klux"?

3. The poem entitled "I, Too" is a response to a poem by what famous American author?

4. How is irony used within the poem entitled "Ballad of the Fortune Teller"?

5. In the poem entitled "Widow Woman," how is the technique of hyperbole utilized?

6. Which two marginalized groups are focused upon within the poem "America"?

7. In what way is the theme of isolation depicted within the poem entitled "Little Old Letter"?

8. In what way is repetition used within the poem entitled "Brass Spittoons"?

9. How is the theme of family bonds depicted within the poem entitled "Mother to Son"?

10. With what countries does the speaker of the poem "Good Morning Revolution" ally himself?

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