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1
Langston Hughes wrote:
A)Poetry
B)Plays
C)Fiction
D)Nonfiction
E)All of the above
2
The tone of "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" is best described as:
A)Ironic
B)Symbolic
C)Personal
D)All of the above
E)None of the above
3
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" mentions all of the following rivers EXCEPT:
A)Euphrates
B)Congo
C)Nile
D)Mississippi
E)Hackensack
4
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" compares what two things using a simile?
A)The speaker's soul and rivers
B)Rivers in Africa and rivers in the USA
C)Rivers in Europe and rivers in Africa
D)Rivers in Europe and rivers in the USA
E)Europe and the USA
5
In "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" the mention of Abraham Lincoln and New Orleans can be seen as:
A)Giving the poem a "realistic" feeling
B)Using the poetic device of the metaphor
C)Alluding to the slave market formerly there and Lincoln's reaction to it
D)Creating a caesura
E)All of the above







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