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In A Streetcar Named Desire, who said, “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers”?  

Identify this work:  “[This work] is a reaction to the racial climate of the late nineteenth century. [The author] talks about hypocrisy, deception, and the fact that black Americans often resorted to seeming content with their social circumstances. But behind all that seeming, though, is just a bunch of lies trying to cover up the fact that they were feeling pretty rotten and unable to talk about their feelings in an honest way.” 

What was the name of the literary movement pioneered by Ezra Pound? 

What did most people assume about Richard Cory?

Which of the following authors suffered increasingly from depression and incapacitating paranoia – afflictions that seem to have run in his family? 

Following Pound, this particular poet, a writer and a doctor, was one of the principal poets of the Imagist movement, though as time went on, he began to increasingly disagree with the values put forth in the work of Pound and especially Eliot, who he felt were too attached to European culture and traditions. Continuing to experiment with new techniques of meter and lineation, he sought to invent an entirely fresh—and singularly American—poetic, whose subject matter was centered on the everyday circumstances of life and the lives of common people.  

What major era did Langston Hughes contribute to? 

What sea creature does Prufrock compare himself to? 

In the final paragraph of the essay, Hurston compares herself to

In “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” what happens to Harry at the end of the story?