Weary Blues Quiz

The song performed in "The Weary Blues" addresses-

• people who are unhappy
• the plight of underpaid musicians
• the musician's poor health
• men without children

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Who utters "I got the Weary Blues/ And I can't be satisfied" in the poem "The Weary Blues"?

• the speaker of the poem
• Langston Hughes
• the musician
• a man in the audience

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The lines in quotation marks in the poem "The Weary Blues" come from-

• dialogue between the speaker and the musician
• the lyrics of the song the speaker hears
• the title "The Weary Blues"
• a conversation between members of the audience

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At the end of "The Weary Blues," the musician - 

• sleeps like the dead
• meets the poet
• smiles at the audience
• passes a hat around for money

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Which of the following elements does the poem "The Weary Blues" not have in common with blues songs?

• Emotionally powerful words 
• Rhythmic lines
• Instrumental accompaniment
• Clever use of repition

In poetry, rhythm refers to-

• the rise and fall of stressed and unstressed syllables
• vowel sounds repeated at the ends of words
• free (unmetered) verse as opposed to formal verse
• formal verse as opposed to free verse

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Rhythms in "The Weary Blues" -

• are unvarying from line to line
• reflect the rhythms of song and speech
• require a piano accompaniment in order to really be felt
• are those of the traditional sonnet

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The mood of a work is the -

• way in which the writer uses language

• author's emotional state in connection to the singer

• attitude of the poet

• atmosphere or dominant feeling

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One type of repetition is a refrain, which is a (n)

• event that recurs in several parts of a ballad
• repeated consonant sound at the beginning of words
• repeated pattern of stressed syllabes
• repeated line or lines in a poem or song

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What is ironic about the poem?

• The description of the setting

• A man singing to the blues

• How the singer is presented in the passage

• The lyrics the singer he sang in his song compared to how he felt while reciting the poem.

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