A primary concern of Langston Hughes was that his White audience avoid drawing conclusions about Black life without having allowed him to show them the reality and meaning of being Black in America.

In “Good Country People,” why were Mr. and Mrs. Freeman dismissed from their previous tenant farming position?

In Part III of “Howl,” Ginsberg repeats a reassuring statement to his friend. What does he tell him?

Postmodernism considers history and fiction both as products of the imagination.

American fiction and drama in the postwar period frequently incorporated and celebrated characters that were nonconforming outsiders.

By the end of Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral,” how does Robert learn what a cathedral looks like?

Match the lines to the poem from which they are taken.

Which of these poems contains allusions to Rime of the Ancient Mariner, slave ships, Tempest, and a Protestant hymn?

Match the quote to its author.

In “Good Country People,” what are the names of Mrs. Freeman’s two daughters?