This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Poets > Langston Hughes > Langston Hughes – Quiz 24 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Langston Hughes Quiz 24 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What promise does the speaker make to himself at the end of the poem 'Dreams Deferred'? A) That he will never lose faith in his dream. B) That he will never forget his dream. C) That he will never give up on his dream. D) That he will never regret his dream. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) That he will never give up on his dream. 2. Delicate; weak; fragile A) Central conflict. B) Cause and Effect. C) Frail. D) Presentable. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Frail. 3. What decade was the Harlem Renaissance in? A) 1900s. B) 1940s. C) 1920s. D) 1960s. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1920s. 4. What did the speaker want to break into a thousand lights of sun? A) The wall. B) The shadow. C) The light of the dream. D) The darkness. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The wall. 5. In the poem titled, "Irish Wake" from the Sea Charm section of our LH book, what tone is used? A) Hopeful. B) Angry. C) Complaining. D) Funny. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hopeful. 6. Based on the following passage, what can we infer about Roger? "The woman did not ask the boy anything about where he lived, or his folks, or anything else that would embarrass him." A) Roger is a private person and easily embarrassed. B) Roger has a normal home life. C) Mrs. Jones is not interested in Roger. D) Roger does not have a good home life. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Roger does not have a good home life. 7. "I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind-And I see that my own hands can makeThe world that's in my mind.Then let us hurry, comrades, The road to find."What is the tone of this ending to the poem? A) Hopeful and optimistic. B) Angry and resentful. C) Confused and uncertain. D) Spurious and fake. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hopeful and optimistic. 8. What did the author decide to do to save further trouble? A) Tell the truth. B) Lie. C) Leave the church. D) Pray harder. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lie. 9. Hughes said that ..... expressed the wide range of black America's experience A) Jazz. B) Soul. C) Blues. D) A and C. E) B and C. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A and C. 10. Mrs. Jones says to Roger, "Everybody's got something in common." What do they have in common? A) They both want to change their lives. B) They both have done something wrong. C) They both hate people. D) They both are afraid of the police. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They both have done something wrong. 11. The poet's name is ..... A) Langston Hughes. B) Hugh Langston. C) Langston Hughes. D) Hughes Langston. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Langston Hughes. 12. The poem, "I, Too, " discusses this concept. A) African-American identity/a right to feel pride and patriotism for a country. B) A love of baseball. C) A love for hockey. D) A love for all eternities. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) African-American identity/a right to feel pride and patriotism for a country. 13. Which Renaissance period did Hughes live in A) Harlem Renaissance. B) Harley Renaissance. C) The Renaissance Fair. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Harlem Renaissance. 14. Which line in the poem is repeated? A) For if dreams die. B) Hold fast to dreams. C) Life is a broken-winged bird. D) Frozen with snow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hold fast to dreams. 15. Why is Roger scared at first in Mrs. Jones's home? A) Mrs. Jones is a strong, large woman. B) He fears that she will turn him over to the police. C) She talks so fast that he can't understand her. D) He thinks she has kidnapped him. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He fears that she will turn him over to the police. 16. In the poem "Words Like Freedom", the words freedom and liberty are italicized and capitalized to emphasize- A) The importance of these ideals. B) The fact that they are proper nouns. C) Their place in the U.S. Constitution. D) How often they are misunderstood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The importance of these ideals. 17. The Congo river is the ..... largest river in Africa? A) First. B) Second. C) Third. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Second. 18. Another word for pleading is A) Smiling. B) Begging. C) Questioning. D) Running. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Begging. 19. Who got up and was saved before the author? A) Westley. B) The preacher. C) The author's aunt. D) No one. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Westley. 20. What does America represent in the first stanza? "I, too, sing America" A) Choir. B) The future. C) Equal rights. D) Freedom. 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