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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For emphasis of the field workers' plight, what does Toomer use?
(a) The cotton picker's voice.
(b) The preacher's voice.
(c) The plantation manager's voice.
(d) God's voice.

2. Who is observing the forest in "Nullo"?
(a) Only the speaker.
(b) The townspeople.
(c) Rhobert.
(d) Fern.

3. The poem "Evening Song" is an ode to whom?
(a) Fern.
(b) Karintha.
(c) Becky.
(d) Cloine.

4. How does the woman personified with the face seem to be?
(a) Thoughtful.
(b) Sad.
(c) Happy.
(d) In love.

5. What animals were described as searching for water?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Cats.
(c) Birds.
(d) Rats.

Short Answer Questions

1. To which theme does "Georgia Dusk" contain many references?

2. What recurring dream does Esther have about her father's store?

3. Within the "Song of the Son," to what are slaves compared?

4. With which physical attribute on others is Esther preoccupied?

5. How do the men in Fern's city feel about her after the narrator begins to pay her attention?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Esther is nine, she witnesses Barlo making a public speech about what?

2. What is the purpose of the "Song of the Son"?

3. How does the narrator describe Carma?

4. What are the "reapers" in the poem of the same name?

5. How does Louisa feel about Tom Burwell and Bob Stone?

6. Why might the author have used electrical imagery to describe the woman in "Her Lips are Copper Wire"?

7. Why might the author have chosen to describe Cloine while sleeping in "Evening Song"?

8. How has Avey been living when the speaker encounters her in New York, and how do we know?

9. Describe the woman in the poem "Face".

10. Why might the author have used the little finger as a metaphor for his entire body in "Prayer"?

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