Age at which Lucinda Matlock dies before she speaks from the grave with her wisdom to the youth of 1915 and by extension to all youth regarding their life view after she lived an ordinary life with all that means, good and bad.

Title where the following passage can be found: “As Reverend Deal moved into his sermon, the hands of the women unfolded like pairs of raven’s wings and flew high above their hats in the air. They did not hear all of what he said; they heard the one word, or phrase, or inflection that was for them the connection between the event and themselves. For some it was the term “Sweet Jesus.” And they saw the Lamb’s eye and the truly innocent victim: themselves. They acknowledged the innocent child hiding in the corner of their hearts, holding a sugar-and-butter sandwich. That one. The one who lodged deep in their fat, thin, old, young skin, and was the one the world had hurt. . . . Then they left their pews. For with some emotions one has to stand. They spoke, for they were full and needed to say. They swayed, for the rivulets of grief or of ecstasy must be rocked. And when they thought of all that life and death locked into that little closed coffin they danced and screamed, not to protest God’s will but to acknowledge it and confirm once more their conviction that the only way to avoid the Hand of God is to get in it.”  

Identify the title: And then she began to dance, a slow sensuous movement; the smoke of a hundred cigars clinging to her like the thinnest of veils. She seemed like a fair bird-girl girdled in veils calling to me from the angry surface of some gray and threatening sea. I was transported. . .And all the while the blonde continued dancing, smiling faintly at the big shots who watched her with fascination, and faintly smiling at our fear. . . . As the dancer flung herself about with a detached expression on her face, the men began reaching out to touch her . . .and above her red, fixed-smiling lips I saw the terror and disgust in her eyes, almost like my own terror and that which I saw in some of the other boys.

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.