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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 pawns the item within the poem entitled "Could Be"?
(a) The speaker's mother.
(b) The speaker's ex-lover.
(c) The speaker's son.
(d) The speaker.

2. The trumpet player featured within the poem of the same name has a jacket with a "roll" (82) containing how many buttons?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

3. What types of figures are NOT included as allusions within the poem entitled "Final Call"?
(a) Politicians.
(b) Literary characters.
(c) Musicians.
(d) Religious figures.

4. To whom is the poem "Late Last Night" addressed?
(a) To God.
(b) To the god of love.
(c) To the speaker's lost lover.
(d) To the reader.

5. In the poem "To Be Somebody," what object does the "little boy" (92) dream of?
(a) A baseball glove.
(b) A trumpet.
(c) A dog.
(d) A boxing glove.

Short Answer Questions

1. What non-traditional element is included within the poem entitled "Cultural Exchange"?

2. The speaker of the poem entitled Crowns and Garlands declares that he cannot take what action with regard to "Ralph Bunche" (139)?

3. The speaker of the poem entitled "Without Benefit of Declaration" rails against what element of society?

4. The speaker of the poem "Advice" gives the opinion that people should try to do what during their lives?

5. What types of trees are featured in the ending of the poem entitled "Birmingham Sunday"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the speaker of the poem entitled "Junior Addict" suggest as the solution for the addiction problem in the subject?

2. Describe Hughes's use of character foils within the poem entitled "Mama and Daughter."

3. For what purpose does Hughes use allusion within the poem entitled "Projection"?

4. The poem entitled "Trumpet Player" uses what kind of metaphor to describe the qualities of music?

5. What possibilities does Hughes imagine in relation to a "dream deferred" (108) in perhaps his most famous poem, entitled "Harlem [2]"?

6. To whom is the poem entitled "Late Last Night" addressed?

7. Discuss the way in which the theme of appearance versus reality appears within the poem entitled "Dinner Guest: Me."

8. What state is being described within the poem that contains as its first three lines the words, "Oh, what sorrow!/Oh, what pity!/Oh, what pain" (115)?

9. In what way does the poem entitled Madam and the Census Man" display the theme of pride in identity?

10. What historical figure is quoted within the poem that includes the lines "Who would be free/Themselves must strike/The first blow" (136)?

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