Writers

Why did the author's grandmother worry about her attitude towards whites?

• She feared that the whites would keep the author from going to school.
• She feared the whites would hurt her for being bold.
• She feared that whites would not understand the author.
• She feared whites would not have any respect fro the author.

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True or False
"Dust Tracks on a Road" is an example of a biography.

• true
• false

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Why did the teachers expect perfect behavior from the children when there were visitors to the school?

• The teachers would be fired if the students misbehaved.
• The visitors gave money to the school.
• The teachers wanted to impress the visitors.
• The teachers wanted to show how well they controlled their class.

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Why did the author receive gifts from the visitors at the school?

• They knew she came from a poor family and they wanted to help.
• The visitors admired the authors independence.
• The visitors were impressed by the authors intelligence.
• They thought the author was very polite.

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Where were the visitors from?

• MIchigan
• New York
• Florida
• Minnesota

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Who was Langston Hughes?

• A popular swing dance singer
• Owner of a popular Speak Easy 
• A famous poet and writer 
• A famous actor

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What is one element Langston Hughes talks about in his poem "I, Too"

• Jazz Blues
• Swing Music 
• NAACP
• Equality 

What device is used here:
Good as gold
Busy bee
Living the life

• Personification
• Hyperbole
• Alliteration
• Rhyme

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Choose the best alliteration definition:

• The repetition of vowel sounds in close proximity.
• The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby words.
• The repetition of consonant sounds in unstressed syllables.

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Which of these lines from Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” contains alliteration?

• Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary
• “’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door
• Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”

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