Voltaire's character Candide ________ numerous misfortunes throughout his travels.

In Toni Morrison’s *Sula*, Plum, a World War I veteran, _____ a defeated, depressed person with substance use disorder.

The Harlem Renaissance, the period when Langston Hughes [wrote / writes] much of his best poetry, [is / was] a flowering of African American music, art, and literature during the 1920s.

In the opening scenes of *Hamlet*, the men [are visited/ were visited] by the ghost of Hamlet’s father, whom Claudius [murders / murdered].

In the TED talk, “How education helped me rewrite my life,” Ashweetha Shetty [explained / explains] through her personal experiences that the purpose of education [was / is] to expand one’s knowledge to overcome societal norms.

Shetty came from a village where they expected nothing from women. In her TED talk, she [refutes / refuted] this idea.

In Ashweetha Shetty’s TED talk “How education helped me rewrite my life” she consistently [mentioned / mentions] a feeling of purpose from the start of her education journey.

Growing up in a small village in India, Shetty [faces / faced] many challenges.

Shetty [said / says] “I was fairly clear from a very early age that no one expected anything from me. I was conditioned to believe that the three identities that defined me -- poor village girl -- meant that I was to live a life of no voice and no choice" (1:17).