2017 Practice Test
Question 1
Item 1
Read the following poem carefully before you choose your answers.
This poem, set in the rural South, was first published during the Harlem Renaissance.
November Cotton Flower
Boll-weevil’s* coming, and the winter’s cold, Made cotton-stalks look...
2017 Practice Test
Question 1
Item 1
Read the following poem carefully before you choose your answers.
This poem, set in the rural South, was first published during the Harlem Renaissance.
November Cotton Flower
Boll-weevil’s* coming, and the
winter’s cold, Made cotton-stalks look
rusty, seasons old, And cotton, scarce
as any southern snow,
Was vanishing; the branch, so pinched and slow,
(5) Failed in its function as the autumn
rake; Drouth fighting soil had caused the
soil to take
All water from the streams; dead birds
were found In wells a hundred feet below
the ground —
Such was the season when the flower bloomed.
(10) Old folks were startled, and it soon
assumed Significance. Superstition saw
Something it had never seen before:
Brown eyes that loved without a trace
of fear, Beauty so sudden for that time
of year.
“November Cotton Flower,” from CANE by Jean Toomer.
Copyright 1923 by Boni & Liveright, renewed 1951 by Jean
Toomer. Used by permission of Liveright Publishing
Corporation.
, 1. Which description best characterizes the poem?
a. A meditation on a disappointing outcome
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