Langston Hughes Quiz 33 (20 MCQs)

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1. What was The Crisis?

Correct Answer: D) A magazine.

2. What does the author mean by "shoes got by devilish ways will burn your feet" ?

Correct Answer: B) If you steal money to buy shoes, guilt will burn your feet.

3. Who is the author of "A Dream Deferred?"

Correct Answer: C) Langston Hughes.

4. Which of the following lines is an example of imagery focusing the sense of smell?

Correct Answer: B) "Does it stink like rotten meat?".

5. Practical

Correct Answer: A) Concerned with ordinary activities;business or work.

6. Which of the following most likely aligns to Langston Hughes' message in "Harlem" ?

Correct Answer: D) There are negative consequences when dreams are put on hold.

7. Who was referred to as 'M'am' in the title of the narrative "Thank You, M'am" ?

Correct Answer: B) Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones.

8. "A Voice" makes the statement that-

Correct Answer: D) Family stories communicate a family's history.

9. Of what did Langston Hughes die?

Correct Answer: C) Cancer.

10. What color does the speaker identify himself as?

Correct Answer: C) Black.

11. Julia was waiting nerviously for her test. hat is the tone?

Correct Answer: B) Afraid.

12. What does the poem suggest could happen if the speaker's dream is deferred?

Correct Answer: A) It might fester like a sore.

13. In lines 39-40, the speaker compares himself to his college professor, saying that his instructor is .....

Correct Answer: B) "older and white and somewhat more free".

14. What literary device does Langston Hughes use in his poem ''Dreams" to help paint a picture for readers?

Correct Answer: A) Personification.

15. People who have dreams

Correct Answer: D) Main characters.

16. What literary device is used in the line 'Does it stink like rotten meat?' in the poem 'Harlem'?

Correct Answer: B) Simile.

17. Where is the Euphrates River located?

Correct Answer: B) Western Asia.

18. The author alluded to in "I, Too, Sing America" is:

Correct Answer: D) Walt Whitman.

19. Which of the following lines in the poem is an example of imagery?

Correct Answer: B) In time of silver rain, The butterflies lift silken wings.

20. Which line from the poem best helps the reader understand the meaning ofbarren?

Correct Answer: C) Frozen with snow.