Identify the title: “One Sunday Connie got up at eleven–none of them bothered with church–and washed her hair so that it could dry all day long in the sun. Her parents and sister were going to a barbeque at an aunt’s house and Connie said no, she wasn’t interested, rolling her eyes to let her mother know just what she thought of it. ‘Stay home along then,’ her mother said sharply.'”

 Henry devalues Elisa’s worth by telling her he wished she grew this instead of her beautiful chrysanthemums since obviously this would have monetary value, something Elisa herself does not possess.

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 title for the quote: My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln        went down to New Orleans, and I’ve seen its muddy        bosom turn all golden in the sunset.

Identify the author: Still alive and writing, this Vietnam veteran wrote about the Vietnam conflict as a surrealistic experience in his National Book Award- winning novel. He received a Purple Heart in action at My Lai and presents the absurdity of war through the experiences of the soldier on the ground.

Identify the character: He is constantly moving to different places in his wagon, earning what he can repairing items for people. He lives in his wagon. When he meets a woman at a farm where he stops for directions, he lies to her to get her to feel sorry for him and give him work. He discards the flowers he is given by the woman and throws them on the road, keeping the pot so he can sell it.

Who is the speaker?   “My father was a justice of the peace, and I suppose he possessed the power of life and death over all men, and could hang anybody that offended him. This was distinction enough for me as a general thing; but the desire to be a steamboatman kept intruding, nevertheless.”

A young man who is trying to recover from violence he had experienced and decompress mentally and spiritually by being in nature in this way.

Identify the character: This young man is harassed by his white employer and other white men until he is forced to fight another young Black man with whom he has no conflict, causing him to feel anger and shame at his loss of dignity.

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!