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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. What are the final two words of the lengthy poem entitled "Freedom's Plow"?

2. The speaker of the poem "Good Morning Revolution" suggests that soon all but which of the following will be true?

3. The poem entitled "Heaven" puts forth the proposition that heaven is the place where what emotion is "everywhere" (48)?

4. Which of the following voices is NOT represented within the poem entitled "Let America Be America Again"?

5. What is NOT a theme depicted in the poem entitled "Freedom's Plow"?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way is the theme of racially-motivated brutality present within the poem entitled "The Bitter River"?

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

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

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

5. In what way is the water motif included within the very first poem in the collection?

6. What action does the speaker of the poem entitled "October 16:The Raid" want the reader to take regarding John Brown?

7. In what way is irony utilized within the poem entitled "The South"?

8. In what way are sensory details used within the poem entitled "Harlem Night Song"?

9. In what way does the speaker of the poem "Daybreak in Alabama" want to commemorate the beauty of the titular subject?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the collection entitled Vintage Hughes from an Existential perspective. What elements of life does it suggest hold the most meaning and why?

Essay Topic 2

Determine Hughes’s message regarding the idea that racism acts as a barrier to understanding, to people's physical and emotional well-being, and to opportunity.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how and why Hughes instills three different humanist messages into the collection entitled Vintage Hughes.

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