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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "In Time of Silver Rain" - "Fulfillment".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What term does Hughes use to describe the Mexican Market Woman in the first line of the poem of the same title?
(a) Queen.
(b) Seer.
(c) Hag.
(d) Crone.

4. What phrase is repeated three times in the poem entitled "In Time of Silver Rain"?
(a) With me.
(b) For you.
(c) Of life.
(d) My love.

5. What is the name of the fortune teller's lover in the poem entitled "Ballad of the Fortune Teller"?
(a) Michael.
(b) Jeff.
(c) Dave.
(d) Wade.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of literary device is used throughout the poem entitled "Joy"?

2. In the poem "Midnight Dancer," Hughes uses what object to act as a simile involving breasts?

3. Mary Lulu Jackson is the subject of which poem?

4. 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?

5. The speaker of the poem "Negro" states that he has been a singer "all the way from Africa" (5) to where?

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