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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Of Men and Cities Poems.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the town logo in "The Town of Fathers"?
(a) "Where beauty is just."
(b) "Freedom and Justice for all."
(c) "If you lived here you would be home by now."
(d) "The Blackest Land / And The Whitest People."

2. Who is Stokowski?
(a) A painter.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A composer.

3. How does the poet assert in "Dark Symphony" that black slaves created a brotherhood?
(a) Through love.
(b) By code.
(c) Through tragedy.
(d) Letters.

4. What do the wise people think of the hillmen's opinions in "Vesuvius"?
(a) There are no wise men in town.
(b) They are wrong.
(c) They are right.
(d) The hillmen are jealous.

5. When does the town of fathers meet?
(a) March 6th.
(b) June 4th.
(c) July 4th.
(d) September 8th.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the bones of the man and snake left behind in "The Ballad of the Rattlesnake"?

2. In "The Blindness of Scorn," what does the Malay guide become caught in?

3. In "Larghetto," what has the black man not contributed to?

4. In "The Shift of Gears," what does the man fix?

5. Why does the bartender judge the narrator in "An Ex-Judge at the Bar"?

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