We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,— This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, And mouth with myriad subtleties.   Why should the world be over-wise, In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see us, while        We wear the mask.   We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries To thee from tortured souls arise. We sing, but oh the clay is vile Beneath our feet, and long the mile; But let the world dream otherwise,        We wear the mask!

Identify the title for the quote:Then took the other, as just as fair: And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that, the passing there,Had worn them really about the same,And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black.

Identify the author: This writer spent his childhood moving often as his mother got work as a maid or cook. He had an uneven education but could read the write. His Mississippi birthplace and the southern states where they moved were segregated so that he could not use public libraries, but he knew he wanted to learn. He was able to get books from a public library in Memphis when he was a young man by using a white man’s library card. His story of the fear and violence of his youth is told in his autobiographical work Black Boy.

Name the character: This character muses on the naturalistic view of the absurdity of the human condition. Nature is completely indifferent to the existence of human beings, who have no importance in the universe as this character recognizes when he faces drowning in the Atlantic Ocean.

Identify the person: The wife of a famous literary person, this woman also wrote a novel as well as painted. She and her husband were associated with the Roaring Twenties and the decade after the end of World War I. She met her husband when he was stationed in Montgomery as a young soldier in 1917.

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.

Name the title for the quote:   The wayfarer,   Perceiving the pathway to truth,   Was struck with astonishment.   “Ha,” he said,   “I see that none has passed here   In a long time.”   Later he saw that each weed   was a singular knife.   “Well,” he mumbled at last,   “Doubtless there are other roads.”  

Name the literary trend: After the earlier trend to focus on the middle-class and the ordinary, this trend goes further in the last decade of the nineteenth century. It focuses on human beings as being controlled by heredity and environment. The characters are often violent in some way and are primitive. In this view, the universe is totally indifferent to the presence of humanity.

Name the literary trend: Part of the realistic trend in literature that developed after the Civil War and that helped reunite the country by showing how different areas lived, contributing to increased understanding. The emphasis was on the dialect, food, geography, clothing, weather, customs of a particular area or locality.

What is the reason Louise Mallard dies at the end of “The Story of an Hour”?