Question

How did Jean Toomer's Cane set the tone for the Harlem Renaissance?

A. Cane was a jazz song that represented the joys and hopes of African Americans.

B. The stories, poems, and sketches in Cane served as a plea to remember and preserve the past.

C. Cane was a series of biographies of political figures in the black nationalist movement.

D. The stories, poems, and sketches in Cane showed the way African Americans should move forward.

Answer 1

B. The stories, poems, and sketches in Cane served as a plea to remember and preserve the past.

Step-by-step explanation:

Cane is novel, though it is composted from various prose, poems, sketches, and plays.

It walks about the various aspects of the life of African-Americans - from those on rural south, celebrating their folk culture and life, to those living in the urban Washington D.C. All the way, the topic about race and conflicts is emerging through the pieces.

However, Cane doesn't talk about the political African American movement and its fight that needs to happen, nor about politics itself; it talks about the identity of African Americans, and how the merging of the new identities still comes from the past and history. It presents African American culture, life, folk and identity and paints how it is connected to the past of the people, especially those who came from the South.