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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 children's rhyme does the speaker mention in "Children's Rhymes"?
(a) Mary had a little lamb.
(b) The itsy-bitsy spider.
(c) Jack and Jill went up the hill.
(d) One, two, buckle my shoe.
2. What does the speaker in "Cross" take back in regard to his father?
(a) Curses.
(b) His books.
(c) A car.
(d) Money.
3. Why does the speaker in "Necessity" finally decide he has to work after all?
(a) Because not working is actually kind of boring.
(b) Because he doesn't want to stay around his girlfriend all day.
(c) Because he has to pay his rent.
(d) Because he doesn't want to go to jail.
4. What does the speaker in "Little Old Letter" claim pen and paper have the power to do?
(a) Seal a deal.
(b) Take a person's life.
(c) Guarantee your rights.
(d) Burn up and turn meaningless.
5. What is the name of the man in "Ballad of the Fortune Teller"?
(a) John.
(b) James.
(c) Dave.
(d) Samuel.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does the character in "Migrant" sign his paycheck?
2. What does the little boy use as a toy in "Madam and the Charity Child"?
3. What does the speaker claim the wine-maiden's lips are as sweet as in "Midnight Dancer"?
4. Which color hands are NOT mentioned in "Daybreak in Alabama"?
5. What does the speaker pick up and take away in "One-Way Ticket"?
Short Essay Questions
1. Which famous line of Langston Hughes is in "Harlem"?
2. What is the history of the word "mulatto," as evidenced in the poem of the same name?
3. What one notable thing does the poem "Daybreak" address in the "Magnolia Flowers" section that the others do not?
4. What does the speaker in "High to Low" accuse the "low" African-Americans of doing?
5. What historical figure might Madam Alberta K. Johnson be based upon?
6. What is the speaker talking about in "Note on Commercial Theater"?
7. What does the stereotype of the poem "Uncle Tom" tap into?
8. How does Madam prefer to handle her suitors?
9. What problem does the U.S. Census worker have with Madam in "Madam and the Census Man"?
10. What is the reader left to assume about how Madam makes money in the poems about her?
This section contains 765 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) |
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