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THE SLAVE SINGING AT MIDNIGHT.

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Ten questions on craft, meaning, and form. Untimed. Answer every question to submit.

Q01of 10

What is the primary structural feature that unites the final two stanzas of the poem?

Q02of 10

The poem is organized in six stanzas of four lines each with a consistent rhyme scheme. What is that rhyme scheme?

Q03of 10

The image of 'Zion, bright and free' functions primarily as what kind of imagery?

Q04of 10

Which of the following best describes the poem's central theme?

Q05of 10

Who is the speaker of this poem?

Q06of 10

The allusion to 'swart Egyptians' and 'Pharaoh and his host' is meant to draw a parallel between which two groups?

Q07of 10

What is the tone of the poem's concluding two lines: 'And what earthquake's arm of might / Breaks his dungeon-gates at night?'

Q08of 10

In stanza five, the reference to Paul and Silas serves which literary purpose?

Q09of 10

The phrase 'songs of triumph, and ascriptions' refers most precisely to what?

Q10of 10

Which detail from the poem most directly establishes that the narrator hears the slave singing late at night?

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