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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. What is the name of the man in "Ballad of the Fortune Teller"?
(a) Dave.
(b) James.
(c) John.
(d) Samuel.
2. What does the speaker in "Misery" wish to hear?
(a) The sound of laughter again.
(b) Blues music.
(c) Her lover's voice.
(d) Silence.
3. What does Ruby Brown do for a living by the time the poem of her same name concludes?
(a) She is a doctor.
(b) She is a teacher.
(c) She is a prostitute.
(d) She quits her job but doesn't have a new one yet.
4. What does the speaker in "Life Is Fine" decide he was born for?
(a) "Dyin'"
(b) "Livin'"
(c) "Cryin'"
(d) "Singin'"
5. What does the speaker claim "Madam" stands for in "Madam's Past History"?
(a) Professor.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Mother.
(d) Business.
Short Answer Questions
1. How much does the character's buddy earn a week in "Buddy"?
2. Where is Miss Yardman in "Southern Mammy Sings"?
3. Which of the following is NOT listed as a job Madam has to do in "Madam and Her Madam"?
4. How many men are helping plan the parade in "Parade"?
5. What does the speaker claim he, too, would do if he were a Gypsy?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the speaker in "Hard Daddy" want to be an eagle?
2. How does the speaker compare his relationship with the South and the North in "The South"?
3. Why does the speaker in "Third Degree" confess to police?
4. Which famous line of Langston Hughes is in "Harlem"?
5. What is the reader left to assume about how Madam makes money in the poems about her?
6. What does the stereotype of the poem "Uncle Tom" tap into?
7. What is the common tone of the pieces in "Life Is Fine"?
8. What are three sub-themes that appear in "Note on Commercial Theater"?
9. What observation does the speaker make about the people riding the subway in "Subway Rush Hour"?
10. What historical figure might Madam Alberta K. Johnson be based upon?
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