According to Langston Hughes’s essay “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (his answer to George Schuyler’s essay “Negro Art Hokum”), what is the “mountain” that stands in the way of “any true Negro art in America” ?

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Ezra Pound’s poem “In a Station of the Metro” reads: “The apparition of these faces in the crowd;/ Petals on a wet, black bough.” Which of the following statements best characterizes this poem ?

A. It seeks to diminish the distance between society and nature. B. It seeks to amplify the distance between society and nature. C. It plays with the relationship between the social, natural, and supernatural worlds. D. It evokes the beauty of a pastoral scene....

Which of the following images in Arthur Rimbaud’s poem “Eternity” undermines the idea that eternity is something fixed and permanent ?

A. The image of a sentinel B. The image of the sun reflected on the sea C. The image of a quest for knowledge D. The image of satiny embers...

In T.S. Eliot’s essay called “Tradition and Individual Talent,” he argues that the progress of an artist consists of which of the following ?

A. “Continual expansion of the personality and its diverse elements” B. “Continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality” C. “Continual transformation of the personality” D. “Continual identification with the past”...

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A. Assonance and word repetition B. Simile C. Metaphor and allusion D. Circumlocution...

According to W.E.B. Dubois in his Atlantic Monthly essay, “The Strivings of the Negro People,” what are some of the personal consequences for an African- American living in a racist society at the beginning of the 20th century ?

A. Feeling like an outcast in your own house B. Becoming a stuttering sycophant just to survive C. Wrapping yourself in the armor of anger and resentment D. All of the above...