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Identify the title of the quote: What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore– And then run?

Name the title:Hoarse, booming drums of the regimentLittle souls who thirst for fight,These men were born to drill and die.The unexplained glory flies above them,Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom–A field where a thousand corpses lie . . .Swift blazing flag of the regiment,Eagle with crest of red and gold,These men were born to drill and die.Point for them the virtue of slaughter,Make plain to them the excellence of killingAnd a field where a thousand corpses lie.

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: 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.

Identify the title for the quote: She tried not to look as they passed it, but her eyes would not obey. She whispered to herself sadly, “He might have thrown them off the road. That wouldn’t have been much trouble, not very much. But he kept the pot,” she explained. “He had to keep the pot. That’s why he couldn’t get them off the road.”

Identify: The period of the 1920s until the mid-1930s saw an explosion of black culture in the creative activities: art, music, writing, dance, photography. The center for most of the black artistic activity was in one section of the country, which gave its name to the movement, although the black creative influence could be found in other geographic areas. 

Identify the person: The wife of a famous literary person, this woman also wrote a novel as well as painted. She and her husband were associated with the Roaring Twenties and the decade after the end of World War I. She met her husband when he was stationed in Montgomery as a young soldier in 1917.

Name the speaker: “But there is no question of wrong in this case. I call it a sacred war. A war for liberty, and humanity, if ever there was one. And I know you will see it just as I do, yet. . . . God meant it to be war.”

Name the character: This character muses on the naturalistic view of the absurdity of the human condition. Nature is completely indifferent to the existence of human beings, who have no importance in the universe as this character recognizes when he faces drowning in the Atlantic Ocean.

Name the title for the quote: “The South stands before the clean equities of the issue. It is no longer whether constitutional amendments, but whether the eternal principles of justice, are violated. And the answer must—it shall come from the South. And it shall be practical. It will not cost much. . . . The answer is coming. . . .I take upon me to say again here, that there is a moral and intellectual intelligence there which is not going to be much longer beguiled out of its moral right of way by questions of political punctilio, but will seek that plane of universal justice and equality which it is every people’s duty before Go to see, not along the line of politics,–God forbid!—but across it and across it and across it as many times as it may lie across the path, until the whole people of every once slaveholding State can stand up as one man, saying, “Is the freedman a free man?” and the whole world shall answer, ‘Yes.’”