View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT a theme depicted in the poem entitled "Freedom's Plow"?
(a) Deception.
(b) Community.
(c) American innovation.
(d) Freedom.

2. Mary Lulu Jackson is the subject of which poem?
(a) The Negro Speaks of Rivers.
(b) Harlem [2].
(c) I, Too.
(d) Graduation.

3. The poem "I, Too" is a response to a poem by which famous American poet?
(a) William Carlos Williams.
(b) Allen Ginsberg.
(c) e.e. cummings.
(d) Walt Whitman.

4. What is the main theme of the poem entitled "Still Here"?
(a) Isolation.
(b) Oppression.
(c) Perseverance.
(d) Violence.

5. What tool does John Henry hold in his hand within the poem entitled "Love"?
(a) A hammer.
(b) An awl.
(c) A scythe.
(d) A hoe.

Short Answer Questions

1. The final line of the poem "Afro-American Fragment" uses what adjective to describe the face of Africa?

2. What is the middle initial of the speaker in the poem "Madam's Past History"?

3. What advice does the gypsy give to the speaker of the poem entitled "Bad Luck Card"?

4. The poem entitled "Heaven" puts forth the proposition that heaven is the place where what emotion is "everywhere" (48)?

5. The speaker of the poem "Merry-Go-Round" asks about the whereabouts of what section on the Merry-Go-Round?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the poem entitled "Widow Woman," how is the technique of hyperbole utilized?

2. Which two marginalized groups are focused upon within the poem "America"?

3. In what way are the themes of brutality and oppression intertwined within the poem "Ku Klux"?

4. How is the theme of family bonds depicted within the poem entitled "Mother to Son"?

5. In what way are sensory details used within the poem entitled "Harlem Night Song"?

6. How is irony used within the poem entitled "Ballad of the Fortune Teller"?

7. In what way does the speaker of the poem "Daybreak in Alabama" want to commemorate the beauty of the titular subject?

8. What types of sensory details are featured within the poem entitled "Graduation," and for what purpose are these details included?

9. In what way is repetition used within the poem entitled "Brass Spittoons"?

10. In what way is the theme of isolation depicted within the poem entitled "Little Old Letter"?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 961 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample