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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" - "Let America Be America Again".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The final line of the poem "Afro-American Fragment" uses what adjective to describe the face of Africa?
(a) Noble.
(b) Dark.
(c) Wide.
(d) Wise.

2. What are the four stanza titles within the poem "A House in Taos"?
(a) Rain, hail, moon, and wind.
(b) Rain, sun, moon, and wind.
(c) Rain, snow, moon, and wind.
(d) Rain, sleet, moon, and wind.

3. In what position is the subject of the poem "Troubled Woman"?
(a) She is floating in the air.
(b) She is lying down.
(c) She is sitting.
(d) She is standing.

4. The speaker of the poem entitled "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" uses a simile to state that what object of his has "grown deep like the rivers" (3)?
(a) His soul.
(b) His aura.
(c) His passion.
(d) His mind.

5. The poem entitled "A Black Pierrot" uses what literary device in crafting the first line of each stanza?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Repetition.
(c) Personification.
(d) Onomatopeia.

Short Answer Questions

1. An allusion to which famous person is NOT included within the poem entitled "Scottsboro"?

2. The speaker of the poem "The South" says at the end of the poem that he will soon seek the North, for he has heard it said that the North is what?

3. The poem entitled "Share-Croppers" has stanzas that contain how many lines within each?

4. To whom does the speaker of the poem "The Negro Mother" speak?

5. When the speaker of the poem "Sylvester's Dying Bed" wakes up, by whom is he surrounded?

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