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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the best description of the storm in "Storm Ending"?
(a) Loud.
(b) Piercing.
(c) Muddled.
(d) Quiet.

2. In what game do Bona and Paul touch?
(a) Poker.
(b) Hopscotch.
(c) Basketball.
(d) Football.

3. What will the speaker's feeling overpower in "Her Lips are Copper Wire"?
(a) His own hesitations.
(b) The power grid.
(c) The woman's objections.
(d) The wishes of others.

4. What type of bee is the speaker in "Beehive"?
(a) Queen.
(b) Worker.
(c) Honey.
(d) Drone.

5. What does the author visually contrast with the whitewashed streets of Washington in "Seventh Street"?
(a) Tar.
(b) Rum.
(c) Black skin.
(d) Blood.

6. What is John's relation to the theater manager?
(a) Brother.
(b) Son.
(c) Friend.
(d) Father.

7. What does the speaker say is lacking in Avey and his encounters?
(a) Spontaneity.
(b) Physicality.
(c) Love.
(d) Passion.

8. What event has just happened preceding the descriptions in "Seventh Street"?
(a) World War II.
(b) Civil Rights Movement.
(c) Abolition of slavery.
(d) World War I.

9. At what age does the speaker begin to tell the story of Avey?
(a) As a child.
(b) College.
(c) Middle age.
(d) High school.

10. In what city does Paul live?
(a) Washington.
(b) Kansas City.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Chicago.

11. In "Harvest Song," who does the speaker long to hear?
(a) The voice of God.
(b) Children laughing.
(c) His mother singing.
(d) Other field workers.

12. What ethnicity is Paul?
(a) We do not find out.
(b) Black.
(c) White.
(d) Mixed.

13. In "Portrait in Georgia", of what does the breath of the woman described breath smell?
(a) Smoke.
(b) Cane.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Honey.

14. What is the overall appearance of the woman described in "Portrait in Georgia"?
(a) Disjointed.
(b) Broken.
(c) Ugly.
(d) Beautiful.

15. Who is Paul's roommate?
(a) Tate.
(b) Rhobert.
(c) Sam.
(d) Art.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is the honey of the beehive against the black night sky?

2. What courses through the speaker's veins in "Her Lips are Copper Wire"?

3. "Prayer" deals with the thematic tug and pull between what two issues?

4. After comparing his soul to a little finger, how does the speaker then describe this body part?

5. At what age, do we find the woman described in "Portrait in Georgia"?

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