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Booker T. Washington made a famous speech called the “Atlanta Compromise,” which contributed to his being known as the “Moses of his race.”

In “A Supermarket in California” by Allen Ginsberg, the speaker of the poem wonders what he and Walt Whitman will do with their night after the grocery store closes.

What political philosophy do the actors in Ginsberg’s poem promote?

Aside from Carl Solomon, which other person that Ginsberg mentions has been in an insane asylum?

What is Hurston describing when she writes, “I follow those heathen—follow them exultingly. I dance wildly inside myself; I yell within, I whoop; I shake my assegai above my head. I hurl it true to the mark yeeeeooww! I am in the jungle and living in the jungle way. My face is painted red and yellow and my body is painted blue. My pulse is throbbing like a war drum. I want to slaughter something—give pain, give death to what, I do not know” (NAAL92 p.958).

This poem asks the reader to consider how things appear to be as opposed to how they actually are inside. The central image is a house that looks peaceful from the outside but contains a family dealing with abuse and trauma.

“No Name Woman,” taken from Maxine Hong Kingston’s Woman Warrior, focuses on a married woman and her place in an urban Chinese community.

What does the speaker say about her hips in “homage to my hips”?

In Act Two of Death of a Salesman, When Biff and Happy meet their father at the restaurant, Biff explains that his meeting with Bill Oliver was less successful than he had anticipated. What did Biff do after relating his plans to start a Loman Brothers sports line in Florida?

Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell were American poets who were friends for thirty years and were possibly romantically involved.