Pipeline & Poetry Test

According to studies, young African American and Latino boys in the school and foster care system are at risk of being put on a

• path to success

• path to prison

• path to death

What are Black Americans most likely to be seen on TV as?

• criminals

• doctors

• lawyers

___________ SES for Black & Hispanic and males gives them an increased risk of falling victim to the criminal justice system.

• Low

• High

• Moderate

What country has the highest incarceration rate?

• Russia

• India

• America

• China

_________ percent of males in state and federal prison do not have a high school diploma.

• 66%

• 67%

• 68%

Langston Hughes wrote the Let America Be ___________ Again poem

• Great

• America

• Harlem

• Good

TRUE OR FALSE

Lyrical poems express personal feelings and emotions

• TRUE

• FALSE

The Harlem Renaissance was FIRST known as the

• New African Movement

• New Negro Movement

Who did Langston Hughes consider his biggest inspiration?

• mother

• grandmother

• aunt

During a train ride, Hughes wrote a poem titled ________________.

• The Negro Speaks of Rivers

• The River Speaks to the Negro

• Speaking to the Rivers as a Negro