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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section XI: Madam to You.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the speaker comment about one's sweetheart in "Reverie on the Harlem River"?
(a) That she's a lying, cheating fake.
(b) That he wishes she'd never been born.
(c) That she's as beautiful as the sunrise.
(d) That she's as beautiful as the sunset.

2. What does the Gypsy need in her hand in "Ballad of the Gypsy" before she reads the speaker's fortune?
(a) Gold.
(b) Bread.
(c) Wine.
(d) Silver.

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

4. What place is the speaker trying to avoid in "One-Way Ticket"?
(a) The police station.
(b) The South.
(c) His girlfriend's house.
(d) His mother's house.

5. What is Joy driving in "Joy"?
(a) A horse-drawn carriage.
(b) The butcher's cart.
(c) A fancy car.
(d) An imaginary buggy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What job does Ruby Brown have when the poem of her same name starts?

2. When did Langston Hughes live?

3. According to the speaker in "To Be Somebody," where is there always room?

4. Where does the speaker think the distance is between "here and there" in the poem "Border Line"?

5. Where does the fortune teller tell Madam her fortune is in "Madam and the Fortune Teller"?

(see the answer key)

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