Although Langston Hughes felt a great responsibility as a speaking voice for Black Americans but felt that Black women didn’t experience as much struggle as Black men; as a result, he did not attempt to represent them in his poetry.

Match the following excerpt to the work from which it is taken: “One night when Dean ate supper at my house–he already had the parking-lot job in New York–he leaned over my shoulder as I typed rapidly away and said, ‘Come on man, those girls won’t wait, make it fast.”

Robert Frost’s poems focused on life in the rural South.

In American literature after 1945, a new readership emerged that looked for characters with which they could identify.

What was the flowering of African American art, literature, music, and culture in the US led primarily by a Black community?

Zora Neale Hurston used mythology in her writings in an attempt to understand the world and explain the creation of the universe. 

Match the quote to its author and title.

Which of the following was an author whose works influenced Modernist writers?

Which poem is generally accepted to be the first haiku published in English but doesn’t quite adhere to traditional haiku form?

Ernest Hemingway is known for promoting feminism in his writings.