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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 word is used to describe the boy in the first line of the poem entitled "Junior Addict"?
2. What type of literary device is consistently featured throughout the poem entitled "Georgia Dusk"?
3. The speaker of the poem entitled "Advice" says that "birthing is" (97) what?
4. The poem "Dream Boogie" includes what salutation at its beginning?
5. What religious allusion does the poem "To Artina" include?
Short Essay Questions
1. Discuss the way in which the theme of appearance versus reality appears within the poem entitled "Dinner Guest: Me."
2. In what way is repetition utilized within the poem entitled "Song for Billie Holiday"?
3. 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)?
4. Characterize the two speakers within the poem entitled "Question and Answer."
5. Discuss one humanist message put forth within the poem entitled "Junior Addict."
6. For what purpose does Hughes invoke a large number of allusions within the poem entitled "Final Call"?
7. What historical figure is quoted within the poem that includes the lines "Who would be free/Themselves must strike/The first blow" (136)?
8. What does the speaker of the poem entitled "Junior Addict" suggest as the solution for the addiction problem in the subject?
9. In what way does the poem entitled Madam and the Census Man" display the theme of pride in identity?
10. What is the most prominent literary device used within the poem entitled "To Be Somebody"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze Hughes's focus on the theme of brutality in the collection entitled Vintage Hughes. What message is Hughes sending about change and about one other theme of your choice?
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
Discuss three different poems that utilize the first person point-of-view. What elements of these poems’ themes and messages lend themselves to the choice of a first-person speaker, and what are Hughes’s intended effects on the reader?
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