Question

Check my answers?? English Homework:

Which of the following did NOT contribute to the Harlem Renaissance?
Question 1

A. The Emancipation Proclamation.

B. By 1930, the population of African Americans in Harlem grew to over 200,000.

C. F. Scott Fitzgerald <---

Question 2
In the poem, "We Wear the Mask", of what is the mask a metaphor?

A. religious faith

B. the long road ahead for African Americans

C. the false exteriors of African Americans <----

Question 3

Who is the speaker in Paul Lawrence Dunbar’s, “We Wear the Mask”?

A. The collective voice of the African American community. <----

B. Paul Lawrence Dunbar.

C. Other poets who lived in Harlem, NY.

Question 4

In Paul Lawrence Dunbar’s poem, “Sympathy”, what does the caged bird most want?

A. To get a message to Heaven.

B. To be free. <---

C. To remember what life was like before being caged.

Question 5

Which of the following lines from Paul Lawrence Dunbar’s “Sympathy” is an example of imagery using a simile?

A. “When the sun is bright on the upland slopes”

B. “And the faint perfume from its chalice steals”

C. “And the river flows like a stream of glass” <----

Answer 1

If you have this question (same question, different answer choices):

Which of the following did NOT contribute to the Harlem Renaissance?

a) The Emancipation Proclamation

b) By 1930, the population of African Americans in Harlem grew to over 200,000

c) The Korean War

d) Jim Crow laws and little opportunity in southern states

The answer is c) The Korean War. (:

Answer 2

I think all of these are correct, Im not certain