Langston Hughes wrote during the Blank 1 Question 1
 
  of the 1920s, a period in which Blank 2 Question 1
 
  flourished in nightclubs in New York, the cultural center of the free world.  Hughes' poetry honors the oral tradition of the Blank 3 Question 1
 
 , using some of the sophisticated rhythmic qualities of jazz music.

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According to Crash Course, Langston Hughes combined both high and low culture in his poetry.  Obviously poetry itself is high culture, but he integrated elements of low culture within it, like...

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a.
all of these


b.
folk fables

c.
children's rhymes


d.
American blues songs


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In Langston Hughes' "Mother to Son," the mother says "life for me ain't been no crystal stair," and she wants her son to hold dear her memory and not take all her Blank 1 Question 3
 
 .  The African American experience in Blank 2 Question 3
 
 in the 1920s was wrought with domestic work: cleaning stairs among them.  Her life has been a fight against Blank 3 Question 3
 
 : unfairly excluded from the American Dream because she was black or a woman.  She was likely a maid or servant herself.

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In Langston Hughes' "Mother to Son," Blank 1 Question 4
 
 are the central metaphor that conveys the poem's themes of generational sacrifice and Blank 2 Question 4
 
 .  In terms of African American experience, the poem reveals Black English vernacular, spiritual metaphor (stairs to heaven), segregation, and Blank 3 Question 4
 
 imagery.

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According to Crash Course, Langston Hughes's "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" expresses the theme of...

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a.
the African-American experience of segregation


b.
the shared history of Africans throughout the past

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According to Crash Course, Langston Hughes famously said, "My best poems were all written when I felt...  

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a.
the worst.  When I was happy, I didn't write anything."


b.
happy.  When I felt sad, I didn't write anything."  


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According to Crash Course, the Harlem Renaissance was what kind of movement?

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a.
allof these


b.
political


c.
artistic


d.
social 


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According to Crash Course, Langston Hughes wrote in...

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a.
classical, complicated rhymes (especially formal White English)


b.
vernacular, everyday English (especially Black English)


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In Langston Hughes' "Mother to Son," the mother makes no excuses.  Notice, she is Blank 1 Question 9
 
 .  She's made it, on the socio-economic ladder and the Blank 2 Question 9
 
 one.  She's raised a son and wants him to be proud of Blank 3 Question 9
 
 , first and foremost.  She wants her son to make it up on the ladders as well.  She encourages him not to "turn back."  The mother knows that segregation is likely tougher on males because they feel the most disenfranchised and ashamed of menial work.

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According to Crash Course, writers of color during the Harlem Renaissance explored what it meant...

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a.
to be an artist


b.
to be black (African-American)


c.
to be both of these


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According to Crash Course, the use of what poetic device in Langston Hughes's "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" gives the poem a feeling of a sermon or spiritual?

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a.
metaphor


b.
irony


c.
rhyme


d.
repetition

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According to Crash Course, the double consciousness of African Americans, expressed W. E. B. DuBois, referred to a source of inward “twoness," a kind of double identity, of African-Americans looking at themselves though both their own eyes, and through the eyes of others, namely ...

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a.
artistic philosophies


b.
white society


c.
African society


d.
religious figures