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” <----