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I, too, am America: The Harlem Renaissance and the Civil Rights Movement — Test

Question 22 • Literature and Composition III

Which excerpt from Hurston’s “John Redding Goes to Sea” is an example of non-academic English?

Answer
A
"Yes, indeed! said the father looking toward the tree designated."
B
"Sometimes in his dreams he was a prince, riding away in a gorgeous carriage."
C
"Perhaps ten-year-old John was puzzling to the simple folk there in the Florida woods for he was an imaginative child and fond of day-dreams."
D
"Aw, woman, stop dat talk 'bout conjure. Tain't so nohow. Ah doan want Jawn tuh git dat foolishness in him."
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