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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. The poem "Daybreak in Alabama" features a speaker who hopes to one day be what?
2. The poem "I, Too" is a response to a poem by which famous American poet?
3. The poem with a title that includes the words "The Raid" (33) also includes what date?
4. The poem entitled "Share-Croppers" has stanzas that contain how many lines within each?
5. What is NOT a theme depicted in the poem entitled "Freedom's Plow"?
Short Essay Questions
1. What types of sensory details are featured within the poem entitled "Graduation," and for what purpose are these details included?
2. How is irony used within the poem entitled "Ballad of the Fortune Teller"?
3. In the poem entitled "Widow Woman," how is the technique of hyperbole utilized?
4. In what way is repetition used within the poem entitled "Brass Spittoons"?
5. In what way are the themes of brutality and oppression intertwined within the poem "Ku Klux"?
6. In what way does the speaker of the poem "Daybreak in Alabama" want to commemorate the beauty of the titular subject?
7. In what way are sensory details used within the poem entitled "Harlem Night Song"?
8. The poem entitled "I, Too" is a response to a poem by what famous American author?
9. In what way is the water motif depicted differently within the poem "The Bitter River" than in many other works within the Vintage Hughes collection?
10. In what way is irony utilized within the poem entitled "The South"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Sensory details are used frequently by Hughes in order to create vivid pictures and feelings for the reader. Choose three moments in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used by the author within the collection Vintage Hughes serve Hughes’s purpose.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the instances of irony within the collection entitled Vintage Hughes and analyze Hughes's purpose for including each instance you discuss.
Essay Topic 3
How do the themes of deception and secrecy function within the collection and what is Hughes’s message regarding these themes?
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