Question

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1.“While night comes on gently,
Dark like me…
Night coming tenderly
Black like me” (Hughes 7-8; 16-17).
In the above lines from "Dream Variations", Hughes uses poetic device. What meaning does this add to the poem?


A. Hughes uses hyperbole to make an extreme exaggeration about the speaker’s character being overly kind and generous to calm white readers.


B. Hughes uses a metaphor to compare the speaker to the night, indicating that the speaker’s dark skin is soft and tender.


C. Hughes uses simile to compare the speaker to the black, gentle, and tender night, implying that the speaker, an African American, is a gentle, tender soul.


D. Hughes uses an allusion to refer to the common idea that black people were freer and safer at night.

2.How is the message in Countee Cullen’s poem “Any Human to Another” reminiscent of the message Frederick Douglass shared in the excerpt we read from his book “Narrative of the Life of a Slave”?


A. Both works aim to end the cruelty of slavery.


B. Both works depict the hardships and the strenuous way of life for those working on plantations.


C. Both works aim to show that the actions and behaviors of racism leave repercussions on all people.


D. Both works are written by men who overcame obstacles and shared their story with the world.


3.How does Cullen’s poem reflect the Harlem Renaissance topic of “the African American Experience”?Question 17 options:

A. The poem discusses universal grief and sorrow. African Americans experienced great grief and sorrow due to the loss of their African homeland as a result of slavery.


B. The poem discusses joy and sorrow. All African Americans were familiar with these emotions due the Great Migration—leaving their home and finding a new one.


C. The poem discusses the sea and river. All African Americans were escaped slaves and had traveled North via the Mississippi or Ohio rivers. They were familiar with rivers.


D. The poem discusses universal grief and sorrow. African Americans experienced great grief and sorrow due to racism, segregation, and prejudice.

4.In order for the theme in Arna Bontemps’s poem “A Black Man Talks of Reaping” (pg 320) to have universal meaning for all people, the reader must understand that the poem is _______________________.

A. An extended metaphor about the effects of racial disparities


B. An allegory about the relationships between migrant workers


C. A juxtaposition between working in fields and gathering fruit


D. An analogy of the hard life of farmers


5.Using context clues, what can you infer about Bontemps use of the word “glean” in stanza 3?
“Yet what I sowed and what the orchard yields
my brother’s sons are gathering stalk and root;
small wonder then my children glean in fields
they have not sown, and feed on bitter fruit.”
(Bontemps 9-12)


A. The children only eat the leftover fruit their fathers worked hard to plant.


B. The children feel more at ease in the fields than their homes.


C. The children do not understand the value of hard work.


D. The children are angry their father’s work has harvested bitter fruit.


6.“My eyes grow dim, and I could no more gaze;
A wave of longing through my body swept,
And, hungry for the old, familiar ways,
I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.”
(McKay 9-12)
How does the language in this stanza convey the tone of McKay’s poem "The Tropics in New York" (pg 323)?
Question 20 options:

A. The words dim, old, and wept reflect the melancholy tone of the poem.


B. The words hungry, familiar, and longing reflect the nostalgic tone of the poem.


C.The words bowed, old, and dim reflect the despairing tone of the poem.


D. The words gaze, longing, and hungry reflect the earnest tone of the poem.


7.Which section from McKay's poem "The Tropics in New York" supports his central theme?


A. "Cocoa in pods and alligator pears,
And tangerines and mangoes and grape fruit,
Fit for the highest prize at parish fairs…" (McKay 2-4).


B. "Set in the window, bringing memories
of fruit-trees laden by low-singing rills,
And dewy dawns, and mystical skies" (McKay 5-7).


C. "And dewy dawns, and mystical skies
In benediction over nun-like hills.
My eyes grow dim, and I could no more gaze" (McKay 7-9).


D. "A wave of longing through my body swept,
And, hungry for the old, familiar ways,
I turned aside and bowed my head and wept" (McKay 10-12).

Answer 1

1. The answer is C. Hughes uses simile to compare the speaker to the black, gentle, and tender night, implying that the speaker, an African American, is a gentle, tender soul.

2. The answer is C. Both works aim to show that the actions and behaviors of racism leave repercussions on all people.

3. The answer is D. The poem discusses universal grief and sorrow. African Americans experienced great grief and sorrow due to racism, segregation, and prejudice.

4. The answer is A. An extended metaphor about the effects of racial disparities.

5. The answer is A. The children only eat the leftover fruit their fathers worked hard to plant.

6. The answer is B. The words hungry, familiar, and longing reflect the nostalgic tone of the poem.

7/ The answer is D. "A wave of longing through my body swept,

And, hungry for the old, familiar ways,

I turned aside and bowed my head and wept" (McKay 10-12).