Identify the title: At stake is the survival of our civilization and the habitability of the Earth. . . .This too is a moral moment, a crossroads. This is not ultimately about any scientific discussion or political dialogue. It is about who we are as human beings. It is about our capacity to transcend our own limitations, to rise to this new occasion. To see with our hearts, as well as our heads, the response that is now called for. This is a moral, ethical and spiritual challenge. We should not fear this challenge. We should welcome it. We must not wait.

Meaning of the title in the Adrienne Rich poem “Living in Sin”

Identify the character: “She drew her shoulders up and sucked in her breath with the pure pleasure of being alive, and just at that moment she happened to glance at a face just a few feet from hers. It was a boy with shaggy black hair, in a convertible jalopy painted gold. He stared at her and then his lips widened into a grin. slit her eyes at him and turned away, but she couldn’t help glancing back and there he was, still watching her. He wagged a finger and laughed and said, “Gonna get you, baby,” and turned away again without Eddie noticing anything.”

Identify the author: This Black writer is often claimed by Alabama because he was educated at Tuskegee although he was born in Oklahoma. He is recognized as the author of an important novel of the mid-twentieth century Invisible Man. His contribution elevated the status of Black characters in the literary scene. In 1999 his novel Juneteenth was published posthumously.

Identify the title: I have ridden in your cart, driver, waved my nude arms at villages going by, learning the last bright routes, survivor where your flames still bite my thigh and my ribs crack where your wheels wind. A woman like that is not ashamed to die. I have been her kind.

Identify the title: “You weren’t being smart, were you, boy?” he said, not unkindly. “No, sir!” “You sure that about ‘equality’ was a mistake?” “Oh, yes, sir,” I said, “I was swallowing blood.” “Well, you had better speak more slowly so we can understand. We want to do right by you, but you’ve got to know your place at all times. All right, now, go on with your speech.”

Identify the speaker: “Now, this conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience . . .We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications . . .In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarrented influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist . . .Together we must learn how to compose difference–not with arms but with intellect and decent purpose.”

Identify the author: Most prolific Black American author of the twentieth century. First Black author to make a living from writing in America. His poetry has Black tone and Black language. Also he wrote stories, essays, and plays. He conveyed the frustration of people who constantly find the American Dream impossible to reach because of system discrimination for any reason.

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.”