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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section III: Shadow of the Blues.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What time does the speaker mention going down to the river in "Reverie on the Harlem River"?
(a) Three p.m.
(b) Five a.m.
(c) Ten p.m.
(d) Two a.m.
2. What supernatural figure appears in the poem "Sunday Morning Prophecy"?
(a) Devils.
(b) Wizards.
(c) Fairies.
(d) Ghosts.
3. Where did the speaker in "Late Last Night" sit and cry?
(a) At the bank.
(b) In the garden.
(c) At the cemetary.
(d) On the steps.
4. What did the speaker's lover also pawn when he/she pawned the speaker's watch?
(a) Heart.
(b) Sanity.
(c) Brain.
(d) Youth.
5. Who is the congregation crying out to in "Shout"?
(a) The couple getting married that day.
(b) The newspaper reporter.
(c) The other church across the street.
(d) Jesus.
Short Answer Questions
1. What annoying habit of his Baby does the speaker address in "Morning After"?
2. What does the word "tom-toms" refer to in "Danse Africaine"?
3. What is Hughes known as being the originator of?
4. How are the poems in "Selected Poems of Langston Hughes" organized?
5. What is one way Sylvester knows he is dying in "Sylvester's Dying Bed"?
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