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.”

Identify the author: This American fiction writer had a larger-than-life persona in his personal life. While he often wrote novels and stories of settings like hunting in Africa, war, bullfights, he could also write stories of quiet moments like trout fishing. His journalism background influenced his writing, which was simple on the surface but which carried emotion beneath. His world was the generation that came of age during World War I and that searched for significance in the first half of the twentieth century.

Name the speaker: “For the white man’s papers I had given up my faith in the Great Spirit. For these same papers I had forgotten the healing in trees and brooks. On account of my mother’s simple view of life, and my lack of any, I gave her up , also. I made no friends among the race of people I loathed. Like a slender tree, I had been uprooted from my mother, nature, and God. I was shorn of my branches, which had waved in sympathy and love for home and friends. The natural coat of bark which had protected my oversensitive nature was scraped off to the very quick.” 

Identify: In Mark Twain’s works, the Mississippi River symbolizes this important theme in American Literature.

Name the title for the quote: “The South stands before the clean equities of the issue. It is no longer whether constitutional amendments, but whether the eternal principles of justice, are violated. And the answer must—it shall come from the South. And it shall be practical. It will not cost much. . . . The answer is coming. . . .I take upon me to say again here, that there is a moral and intellectual intelligence there which is not going to be much longer beguiled out of its moral right of way by questions of political punctilio, but will seek that plane of universal justice and equality which it is every people’s duty before Go to see, not along the line of politics,–God forbid!—but across it and across it and across it as many times as it may lie across the path, until the whole people of every once slaveholding State can stand up as one man, saying, “Is the freedman a free man?” and the whole world shall answer, ‘Yes.’”