Nation

Question 1

HF 1

Answer 1

“I was a trembling, because I’d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute… then says to myself: “All right, then, I’ll go to hell” - and tore it up.”

Question 2

HF 2

Answer 2

“She was ashamed she was ever going to sell him down the river, and SAID so; and she set him free in her will.”

Question 3

TT 1

Answer 3

“In this society… the speculation is that God has put up this elaborate solar system and left it to run itself… Mankind is self-sufficient”

Question 4

TT 2

Answer 4

“I found out at the end, that it didn’t have anything to do with how much I’ve read or how many facts I’ve learned about Islam. Knowledge is necessary, that’s true. But faith, it comes direct from Allah.”

Question 5

Jonathan Arac on Ralph Ellison

Answer 5

“Ellison’s understanding” is that the novel “stands equally against whites who ignore African-American contributions to American Culture and against blacks who would define and promote a separatist cultural nationalism”