Langston Hughes Quiz

What does the speaker see when looking at the world?

• Silly walls

• Awakening eyes

• Oppression

• A fenced-off narrow space

"And this is what I see:

This fenced-off narrow space

Assigned to me."

What does Langston Hughes mean by this metaphor?

• Langston Hughes is using a metaphor to describe his experience of being confined or limited in some way.
• Langston Hughes is describing a feeling of freedom and liberation.
• Langston Hughes is talking about a literal fence that he is looking at.
• Langston Hughes is describing a wide open space that he has been given.

What he referring to when he says this "small space that has been assigned" to him??

• Integration

• Segregation

• Removal

• The end of the Civil War

What does the speaker know about the walls?

• They will have to go

• They are oppressive

• They are dark

• They are silly

What do you believe the author means by the metaphor of "That all these walls oppression builds will have to go!"

Make sure to fully explain your answer clearly (but you do not need evidence from the text).

What does the speaker see when looking at their own body?

• Awakening eyes

• Hands that can make the world

• Dark face

• Blind eyes

What is the theme of this poem?

• The beauty of nature and the importance of preserving it
• The benefits of conformity and following societal norms
• The power of wealth and material possessions in achieving happiness
• Persevere against oppression and fight for your beliefs.

"I look at my own body   

With eyes no longer blind—

And I see that my own hands can make

The 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?

• hopeful and optimistic
• angry and resentful
• confused and uncertain
• spurious and fake

"With eyes no longer blind—

And I see that my own hands can make

The world that's in my mind."

Make an inference about the type of world that Langston Hughes sees in his mind that he wants to make. Use your own ideas and ideas from the text to support your answer.

In "We Wear the Mask" and "I Look at the World", both poets express their opinion on the treatment of African Americans in the US.

Using your own ideas and ideas from the text, how do the ideas of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes compare? (RACECE)