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Hour: _______________ Name: ____________________________________ Langston Hughes: “The Weary Blues” and “Harlem” Voices of the Harlem Renaissance ____1 The song performed in “The Weary Blues” addresses a. all people who are unhappy c. the musician’s poor health b. the plight of underpaid musicians d. men without children ____ 2. The musician in “The Weary Blues” feels tired because he a. works all night c. can’t find satisfaction b. receives low wages d. suffers from lack of sleep ____ 3. At the end of “The Weary Blues,” the musician a. sleeps like the dead c. smiles at the audience b. meets the poet d. passes around a hat ____ 4. According to the speaker in “Harlem,” conditions for people living in Harlem a. improved after the birth of the blues b. have deteriorated since they moved there c. have not changed much over the years d. will become better as time passes ____ 5. The speaker in “Harlem” uses “we” to refer to a. residents of Manhattan b. people selling bread in Harlem c. people who remember the Depression d. African Americans in Harlem ____6.In the final stanza of “Harlem,” people a. thoughtfully observe the outside world b. recall World War II c. talk about the civil rights movement d. decide to leave the neighborhood ____ 7. What is the main subject of “Harlem”? a. the birth of the blues c. the home of the Jazz Age b. the problem of injustice d. a funeral eulogy ____8.The conflict that Hughes describes in “Harlem” takes place between a. rival poets c. blacks and whites b. shopkeepers and customers d. guilt and innocence ____ 9. The conversational style in “Harlem” is achieved by use of a. personification c. alliteration b. free verse d. end rhyme ____ 10. The piano in “The Weary Blues” is personified as a person a. shouting c. sleeping b. moaning d. dancing ____ 11. The tone of “The Weary Blues” is a. sympathetic b. disgusted c. optimistic d. patronizing Literary Element: Rhythm ____ 12. Rhythms in “The Weary Blues” a. are highly regular b. reflect the rhythms of blues music c. require piano in the background d. are those of the traditional sonnet ____ 13. The type of poetry that could best accommodate the “syncopated” rhythm referred to in “The Weary Blues” is a. the sonnet c. the villanelle b. free verse d. blank verse Literary Element: Tone ____14.The tone of a work refers to the a. atmosphere created by the work b. emotions of the narrator c. attitude of the writer d. way in which a writer uses language ____ 15. “Harlem” conveys all of the following except a. caution c. frustration b. anger d. cynicism