AnswersCMS 2026-2027 English III CREDIT RECOVERYI, too, Am America: The Harlem Renaissance and Cultural Rebellion

I, too, Am America: The Harlem Renaissance and Cultural Rebellion — Test Answers

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Which sentence from Dispatches contains the best example of sensory language?

A
Sometimes you’d step from the bunker, all sense of time passing having left you, and find it dark out.
B
There would be dozens of them at once sometimes, trailing an intense smoke, dropping white-hot sparks, and it seemed as though anything caught in their range would be made still, like figures in a game of living statues.
C
Once in a while—I guess I saw it happen three or four times in all—there would be a secondary explosion, a direct hit on a supply of NVA ammunition.
D
If they did, when they did, it might not matter that you were in the best bunker in the DMZ, wouldn’t matter that you were young and had plans, that you were loved, that you were a noncombatant, an observer.
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The speaker in Hughes’s poem “Democracy” encourages people to

A
bravely stand up for what is right.
B
patiently wait for equality to come.
C
peacefully support change.
D
silently let change take its course.
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Read the excerpt from “I Dream a World” by Langston Hughes. A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the earth And every man is free, Where wretchedness will hang its head And joy, like a pearl, Attends the needs of all mankind— Of such I dream, my world! Based on the dreams that the speaker describes, it is reasonable to infer that the speaker

A
lives in a time and place where equality does not exist.
B
is hopeful all people will experience the same freedoms he enjoys.
C
has given up the idea that one day all people will be treated the same.
D
will do whatever is necessary to gain equality for all.
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In Langston Hughes’s poem “I Dream a World,” the repetition of the word “dream” emphasizes

A
the notion that Hughes lives in a fantasy world rather than reality.
B
the idea that the action of the poem takes place at night.
C
the belief that dreams often remain unrealized due to oppression.
D
the fact that equality is a desired but seemingly unattainable goal.
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What can readers infer about Hurston from her voice in Their Eyes Were Watching God ?

A
She appreciates history and culture.
B
She speaks in a regional dialect.
C
She values certain cultures above others.
D
She has experience in political activism.

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