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

Question 1

The speaker in Hughes’s poem “Democracy” encourages people to

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bravely stand up for what is right.

Question 2

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

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"Aw, woman, stop dat talk 'bout conjure. Tain't so nohow. Ah doan want Jawn tuh git dat foolishness in him."

Question 3

Read the excerpt from Zora Neale Hurston’s “John Redding Goes to Sea.” "Cose you allus tries tuh know mo' than me, but Ah ain't so ign'rant. Ah knows a heap mahself. Many and many's the people been drove outa their senses by conjuration, or rid tuh deat' by witches." Why does Zora Neale Hurston use non-academic English in this excerpt?

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to portray the dialect of Black Americans during the period

Question 4

Read the excerpt from Hurston’s “John Redding Goes to Sea.” Matty Redding, John's mother, was setting the table for supper. She was a small wiry woman with large eyes that might have been beautiful when she was young, but too much weeping had left them watery and weak. Which best describes the intent of Hurston’s use of voice as it relates to cultural experience?

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Hurston highlights the hardships that women in the community are experiencing through her description of Matty Redding.

Question 5

Which of the following sentences contains thesis statement of the paragraph?

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