Part 2 Cumulative Speedback #2

Question 1

What does the following line from the Gettysburg Address mean?

Answer 1

The world may not remember the words of this ceremony, but they will remember the men who fought and died here.

Question 2

Who fired the first shots in the Civil War?

Answer 2

Southern troop who fired on Fort Sumter.

Question 3

Langston Hughes

1. Modernism
2. Harlem Renaissance
3. Realism
4. Postmodernism/ Contemporary

Answer 3

Harlem Renaissance

Question 4

Catcher in the Rye

1. Modernism
2. Realism
3. Harlem Renaissance
4. Postmodernism/ Contemporary

Answer 4

Postmodernism/ Contemporary

Question 5

How did the writer discover the truth about his family’s poverty? (“Fool’s Paradise”)

Answer 5

They were unable to give gift at Christmas time.

Question 6

What type of nonfiction is “Fool’s Paradise?”

Answer 6

Autobiography

Question 7

What does Martin Luther King, Jr. want for his children? (“I Have a Dream”)

Answer 7

All of the above

Question 8

Joseph Lash is writing a biography of Annie Sullivan, but he quotes passages written by Sullivan herself. Which of the following is not one of the passages that is included within the biography? (“Annie Sullivan”)

Answer 8

Remembering her first day at Perkins School for the Blind

Question 9

Shakespeare’s theater was known as

Answer 9

the Globe