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In which story is the following quote found? “All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. And even then, on the rare occasions when something opens within, and the music enters, what we mainly hear, or hear corroborated, are personal, private, vanishing evocations. But the man who creates the music is hearing something else, is dealing with the roar rising from the void and imposing order on it as it hits the air. What is evoked in him, then, is of another order, more terrible because it has no words, and triumphant, too, for that same reason.”

Eliot’s “The Waste Land” includes allusions concerning the Bible, literature,history, and physical locations. These allusions include references to the books of Ezekiel and Isaiah as well as The Fire Sermon preached by Buddha. The Tempest and Hamlet are also referenced.

Which of the following is NOT a theme in Hurston’s “How it Feels to be Colored Me”?

In which story is the following quote found? “I used to dream a lot and almost always the orchard was there. Two acres, four maybe, of these little apple trees. Hundreds of them. Empty and crooked like beggar women when I first came to St. Bonny’s but fat with flowers when I left. “

What do the churn, the quilt, and the Polaroids that Dee takes best symbolize to her?

In which story is the following quote found? “I never told you, but our life is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days, a spy in the enemy’s country…Live with your head in the lion’s mouth. I want you to overcome ’em with yeses, undermine ’em with grins, and agree ’em to death and destruction, let ’em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open.”

How does the action of Maggie “[trying] to dig a well in the sand with her toe” characterize her when Dee returns home?

What type of negative symbolism could relate to the orchard in “Recitatif”?

Rolling with Resistance is part of: 

What is the amount of squeezes for an adult when using an ambu bag?