View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the final line of the short poem entitled "Dream Dust"?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Not for sale.
(c) Up for grabs.
(d) Not on your life.

2. How many times does the speaker of "Final Call" invoke the word "Come!" (134) in the poem's final stanza?
(a) 8.
(b) 7.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

3. Into how many pieces is the subject of the poem's heart broken in the poem entitled "Late Last Night"?
(a) 14.
(b) 2.
(c) 16.
(d) 1,000.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The poem entitled "To Be Somebody" has a final stanza suggests that "There's always room" (92) in what location?

2. What is the final word included in the poem entitled "Un-American Investigators"?

3. The poem in the collection that focuses on Frederick Douglass has a title listing what years?

4. The speaker of the poem "Final Curve" declares that "When you turn the corner and run into" (91) what, then you know you have run out of corners to turn?

5. About which religious figure is the poem entitled "Encounter"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Characterize the two speakers within the poem entitled "Question and Answer."

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

3. In what way is the theme of collectivism present within the poem entitled "To You"?

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

5. Discuss two examples of personification within the poem entitled "Georgia Dusk."

6. What is the main message of the poem entitled "Without Benefit of Declaration"?

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

8. What is the setting of the poem entitled "Projection"?

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

10. What is the Existential viewpoint of the poem entitled "Advice"?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,016 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample