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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. In "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," where does the speaker say he has been over time?
(a) The Congo.
(b) The Nile.
(c) All of these answers are correct.
(d) The Euphrates.

2. What is the title of the poem about John Brown in the "Afro-American Fragments" section?
(a) October 16.
(b) John Brown.
(c) Brown John.
(d) Mississippi Burning.

3. What did the speaker do with his nickel in "Midnight Raffle"?
(a) Invest it.
(b) Take his wife to a midnight movie.
(c) Use it to catch a cab at midnight.
(d) Put it in a raffle.

4. What women are surrounding the speaker in "Sylvester's Dying Bed"?
(a) "Mother Mary, sweet angel of mine."
(b) "All the womens in the town."
(c) "The two best women I ever did meet."
(d) "My mama and wife, lights of my life."

5. What color does the speaker in "Wake" tell his mourners to wear?
(a) Red.
(b) Black.
(c) Pink
(d) White.

Short Answer Questions

1. What "mellows to a golden note" in "Trumpet Player"?

2. Who selected the poems in "Selected Poems of Langston Hughes"?

3. How does the speaker specifically describe the tulips in "Garden"?

4. In "Angels Wings," what does the speaker say the angel's wings are as white as?

5. What does the speaker see in "Seascape"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of tour does Hughes take the reader on in "Sea and Land"?

2. Why does the preacher in "Sunday Morning Prophecy" want congregants to give freely into the collection basket?

3. What is a Black Maria?

4. What is the musician singing about in "The Weary Blues"?

5. Why does the speaker want people to wear red in "Wake"?

6. What do many of the poems in the "Afro-American Fragment" section of "Selected Poems of Langston Hughes" have an undercurrent of?

7. What does the speaker hope in the poem "Island"?

8. What does Hughes write in the introduction before the poem "Sunday Morning Prophecy" begins?

9. What kinds of objects are referenced in "Spirituals"?

10. For how long does the speaker in "Evil" plan to "keep on at it"?

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