African studies quiz on poems

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“Those Winter Sundays”, “The Rag Man”, “Killing the Calves”, “American Journal”; Dudley Randall’s “Booker T. and W.E.B.”; and Claude Mckay’s “If We Must Die”.

In the poem, “Those Winter Days”, who does Hayden dedicate the poem to?

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In the poem, “The Rag Man”, Hayden is talking what kind of person?

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The poem, “Killing the Calves”, is really about the unfair treatment of human beings?

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In the poem, “American Journal”, who is the author?

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In the same poem, who is Hayden referring to in this line, “charming savages enlightened primitives”?

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When observing this line, “America as much a problem in metaphysics as/it is a nation”, what do we learn about the speaker’s view of the U.S.?

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Is the poem, “Booker T. and W.E.B.” dedicated to Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois?

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In the same poem, what is the disagreement about between Washington and DuBois?

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What is the poem, “If We Must Die” suggesting Black people should do?

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In the same poem, what are some of the themes that McKay is raising?

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