Identify the author: Still alive and writing, this Vietnam veteran wrote about the Vietnam conflict as a surrealistic experience in his National Book Award- winning novel. He received a Purple Heart in action at My Lai and presents the absurdity of war through the experiences of the soldier on the ground.

Identify the title: You that never done nothin’ But build to destroy You play with my world Like it’s your little toy You put a gun in my hand And you hide from my eyes And you turn and run farther When the fast bullets fly. You’ve thrown the worst fear That can ever be hurled Fear to bring children Into the world For threatening my baby Unborn and unnamed  You ain’t worth the blood That runs in your veins.

Why does Frost’s traveler stop to look at the woods during a snowfall?

Identify the character: This young man is harassed by his white employer and other white men until he is forced to fight another young Black man with whom he has no conflict, causing him to feel anger and shame at his loss of dignity.

Identify the title of the quote: “I was afraid to look at him; if I had looked at him I would have had  to tell him to leave me alone, that I knew he was lying, that I knew he was no friend of mine, that I knew if anyone had thrust a knife through my heart he would simply have laughed. But I said nothing. He was the boss and he could fire me if he did not like me. He laid an open knife on the edge of his workbench, about a foot from my hand. I had a fleeting urge to pick it up and give it to him, point first into his chest. But I did nothing of the kind. I picked up the knife and put it into my pocket.”

Identify: The period of the 1920s until the mid-1930s saw an explosion of black culture in the creative activities: art, music, writing, dance, photography. The center for most of the black artistic activity was in one section of the country, which gave its name to the movement, although the black creative influence could be found in other geographic areas. 

Identify the character: This character has returned to Paris after the loss of his money in the crash of 1929 has forced him to leave. A recovering alcoholic, he has lived the good life when he had money; however, his wife has died and he has lost custody of Honoria , his daughter. His reason for returning is to try to regain custody of his daughter, having realized that the important things in life are not money but family and integrity.

Identify the title: But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed, Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter, I am no prophet–and here’s no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid.

Identify the title for the quote: She tried not to look as they passed it, but her eyes would not obey. She whispered to herself sadly, “He might have thrown them off the road. That wouldn’t have been much trouble, not very much. But he kept the pot,” she explained. “He had to keep the pot. That’s why he couldn’t get them off the road.”

Name the speaker: “I suppose you would have been glad to die, such a brave person as you!  I don’t believe he was glad to die. He was always a timid boy, that way; he was afraid of a good many things; but if he was afraid he did what he made up his mind to. I suppose he made up his mind to go, but I knew what it cost him, by what it cost me when I heard of it. I had been through one war before. When you sent him you didn’t expect he would get killed.”