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Question 1

Read the excerpt from "Harrison Bergeron."A police photograph of Harrison Bergeron was flashed on the screen—upside down, then sideways, upside down again, then right side up.This excerpt is an example of satire because it humorously

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exposes the incompetence that this society views as normal.

Question 2

Read the excerpt from Black Boy.Again I was faced with choices I did not like, but I finally agreed. After all, my hate for my father was not so great and urgent as my hate for the orphan home. My mother held to her idea and one night a week or so later I found myself standing in a room in a frame house. My father and a strange woman were sitting before a bright fire that blazed in a grate. My mother and I were standing about six feet away, as though we were afraid to approach them any closer.Wright explains his difficult choice in this excerpt in order to show that he was

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willing to do anything to leave the orphanage.

Question 3

Read the excerpt from Notes of a Native Son.That bleakly memorable morning I hated the unbelievable streets and the Negroes and whites who had, equally, made them that way. But I knew that it was folly, as my father would have said, this bitterness was folly. Which word creates the transition between the stated problem and its emerging solution?

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but

Question 4

Read the excerpt from Notes of a Native Son.A few hours after my father’s funeral, while he lay in state in the undertaker’s chapel, a race riot broke out in Harlem. On the morning of the 3rd of August, we drove my father to the graveyard through a wilderness of smashed plate glass.Baldwin places his father’s funeral in the historical context of the Harlem riots to show that racial prejudice in early 20th-century America

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was also a cause for mourning.

Question 5

“I think I’d make a good Handicapper General.”“Good as anybody else,” said George.“Who knows better’n I do what normal is?” said Hazel.

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It depicts her as a flat character because she represents the stereotype of average intelligence.

Question 6

In what way are the lines of "The Weary Blues" similar to the lyrics of a blues song?

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The poem uses repetition to create meaning.

Question 7

Read the excerpt from Notes of a Native Son.It had something to do with his blackness, I think—he was very black—with his blackness and his beauty, and with the fact that he knew that he was black but did not know that he was beautiful. He claimed to be proud of his blackness but it had also been the cause of much humiliation and it had fixed bleak boundaries to his life.What does the excerpt tell readers about racial prejudice in early 20th-century America?

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Racial prejudice had negative psychological effects on those who suffered its injustices.

Question 8

Read the excerpt from "Harrison Bergeron."“I am the Emperor!” cried Harrison. “Do you hear? I am the Emperor! Everybody must do what I say at once!” He stamped his foot and the studio shook.“Even as I stand here—” he bellowed, “crippled, hobbled, sickened—I am a greater ruler than any man who ever lived! Now watch me become what I can become!” Harrison tore the straps of his handicap harness like wet tissue paper, tore straps guaranteed to support five thousand pounds. Harrison’s scrap-iron handicaps crashed to the floor.What do Harrison’s words and actions reveal about his character?

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He wants to rebel against the law and show off his true self.

Question 9

Read the excerpt from Notes of a Native Son.That bleakly memorable morning I hated the unbelievable streets and the Negroes and whites who had, equally, made them that way. But I knew that it was folly, as my father would have said, this bitterness was folly. What emerging solution to his problem does Baldwin recognize?

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Feeling hatred is unproductive.

Question 10

Read the excerpt from Jackie Robinson’s letter to President Eisenhower.As the chief executive of our nation, I respectfully suggest that you unwittingly crush the spirit of freedom in Negroes by constantly urging forbearance and give hope to those pro-segregation leaders like Governor Faubus who would take from us even those freedoms we now enjoy. Your own experience with Governor Faubus is proof enough that forbearance and not eventual integration is the goal the pro-segregation leaders seek. Which best explains the purpose of Robinson’s letter?

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to request immediate action from President Eisenhower in furthering equal rights for African Americans

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