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Langston Hughes Quiz 7 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which group, historically, did NOT live in Harlem?
2. Who was Miss Dietrich?
3. Which evidence shows what Arcie thought about the white people she worked for?
4. If he was working to get something he would be .....
5. What happens right after Mr. Hughes sees one of Langston's poems on the floor?
6. Soft and rich as sound, tones, color, or light.
7. Where did Hughes first get the idea to combine his poetry with jazz?
8. "Green grasses grow" is an example of what poetry technique?
9. Which type of figurative language is used the in the line below:"Life is a barren field frozen with snow."
10. Who is the speaker of the poem?
11. For which of the following activities would you want to look most presentable?
12. In the short story version, Mrs Jones sat down on a .....
13. What is the major theme of the narrative "Thank You, M'am?"
14. In "Mother to Son", the mother compares her life to a .....
15. Which line of poetry displays onomatopoeia?
16. Using context clues, the word "mulatto" means-
17. According to ''Dreams, " what will happen if our dreams die?
18. A collection of scenes are called .....
19. What award did the NAACP give Langston Hughes?
20. What do lines 2 through 7 tell the reader?
21. The poem "I Too" is spoken in-
22. Where does Langston's father want to send him?
23. Which word means:to show worry
24. Which statement explains the simile, "Maybe it just sags/like a heavy load?" (Lines 9-10)
25. What was in front of the speaker, bright like a sun?
26. When Mrs. Jones says, "I were young once and I wanted things I could not get, " what is she trying to illustrate?
27. What is the significance of the imagery of "tacks, " "splinters, " and "boards torn up" in the poem?
28. A renewal and flourishing of Black literary and musical culture during the years after World War I in the Harlem section of New York City.
29. What can you infer about Roger from the following passage? " ..... with a large purse that had everything in it but hammer and nails ..... But the boy's weight and the weight of the purse combined caused him to lose his balance ..... "
30. How does Mrs. Jones get Roger to her home?
31. Hughes mixed the lyrical nature of his poetry with more natural dialogue. What does lyrical mean?
32. What does the poem 'Harlem' suggest about the consequences of ignoring dreams?
33. What do you think the poet wants us to learn from this poem?
34. The choice of words in a work that the author makes.
35. Who wrote ''Dreams" ?
36. Austin devised a ..... to sneak into the baseball stadium and steal the World Series ball.
37. "She was a large woman with a large purse that had everything in it but hammer and nails." -This is an example of:
38. What does the poem 'Harlem' compare a deferred dream to?
39. Why does the poem suggest that a 'dream deferred' might 'dry up' like a raisin in the sun?
40. The act of drawing a conclusion that is not actually stated.
41. According to Mrs. Jones, what lesson has Roger NOT been taught?
42. A boy who guides the animals drawing a plough
43. Why did the author cry in bed that night?
44. Langston Hughes .....
45. How does the mini-biography video help develop the central ideas of the passage?
46. Which of the following was NOT a job Hughes held, according to the selection?
47. What college did Hughes GRADUATE from.
48. When did Harlem become the "Black Mecca" ?
49. The Poet uses the repetition at the beginning of these lines to showe
50. What does extenuating mean?
51. Do you agree with what the poet is saying about dreams?
52. What is the poem's meter?
53. Choose the BEST answer that explains how the two themes of Langston Hughes texts are similar.
54. What did the preacher sing about?
55. To sing or hum in a soft soothing voice.
56. What quality do the four poems have in common?
57. What was the main message, or theme, in Hughes's poem?
58. What did the speaker want to break through with his hands?
59. Langston Hughes made it "his mission to write about black life in realistic detail, vividly portraying both beauty and hardship, often with a dose of humor" . The word "mission" shows Hughes' ..... ?
60. To be very sleepy
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