Quiz on "Theme for English B"

1. "Being me, it will not be white." a) He is turning in his theme on colored paper. b) His life experiences make him what he is, and that will come out in his writing. c) The teacher will automatically be prejudiced against his paper. d) The teacher will be able to tell it was written by a black person.
2. "I guess you learn from me— although you’re older—and white— and somewhat more free." Langston Hughes is probably saying...a) that he has many things to teach his teacher. b) that his teacher can't really ever understand what his life is really like. c) that older people are sometimes wrong. d) None of the above. e) All of the above.
3. "I am the only colored student in my class. The steps from the hill lead down into Harlem, through a park, then I cross St. Nicholas, Eighth Avenue, Seventh, and then I come to the Y, the Harlem Branch Y, where I take the elevator up to my room, sit down and write this page:" He makes a big deal about how he gets home to do this paper because... a) he lives in a dangerous neighborhood. b) he's trying to show how far he has to walk. c) he's making the point that he lives in a world very different than that of teacher. d) he's trying to show how poor he is.
4. "Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you—Then, it will be true." The word "true" in line #5 most likely means: a) factually correct, b) believable , c) told straight, without any extra details  d) truly personal and important.
5. "Theme for English B" The word theme, as it is used here, most likely means: a) what the poem is really about, b) another name for a piece of writing, c) what the poem relates to, d) none of the above.
6. The word dig, as it is used in "Motto", means...a) understand, b) relate to, c) like, d) try to understand, e) all of the above, f) a and d, g) none of the above.
7. Harlem is a neighborhood in...a) New Jersey, b) North Carolina, c) South-Central L.A., d) New York City, e) none of the above.
8. Bop is a type of...a) gun, b) jazz music, c) blues music, d) drumming, e) none of the above.
9. The idea of America as the "melting pot" means... a) that America is a place where people from many cultures can come and still be Russian or Irish or whatever, b) that America is a place where people from many cultures come and become "Americans", c) that America is a place where people from many cultures can come and have their own sections of cities and neighborhoods, d) a and c, e) none of the above. f) all of the above.
10. Extra Credit (2): YMCA is an ____________ that stands for...