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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section VIII: Lament Over Love.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the speaker stuck between in "Border Line"?
(a) Harlem and Queens.
(b) Living and dying.
(c) His wife's house and his girlfriend's house.
(d) A rock and a hard place.

2. What asked the speaker for a kiss in "Suicide's Note"?
(a) The river.
(b) A frog.
(c) A beautiful man.
(d) An ugly woman.

3. What did the speaker's lover in "Lover's Return" come home to do?
(a) Cook.
(b) Die.
(c) Cry.
(d) Sleep.

4. What does the trumpet player have beneath his eyes in "Trumpet Player"?
(a) "The shining light of an angel."
(b) "Dark moons of weariness."
(c) "The guilt of sins from yesterday."
(d) "The glow of a man on fire inside."

5. What inappropriate fashion item do the pimps wear in "What?"
(a) Horizontal stripes.
(b) White shoes after Labor Day.
(c) Summer hats into late fall.
(d) Baseball caps indoors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker encourage the reader to wonder about when down by the river?

2. What did the speaker come home without in "Midnight Raffle"?

3. What kind of cadence is "The Weary Blues" written in?

4. What supernatural figure appears in the poem "Sunday Morning Prophecy"?

5. What are the tambourines being played for in "Tambourines"?

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