Vietnam Literary Journalism — Unit test

Question 1

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 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

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

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bravely stand up for what is right.

Question 4

In Langston Hughes’s poem “I Dream a World,” the repetition of the word “dream” emphasizes

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the fact that equality is a desired but seemingly unattainable goal.

Question 5

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 earthAnd every man is free,Where wretchedness will hang its headAnd 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

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lives in a time and place where equality does not exist.

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