Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu. Read this excerpt from Countee Cullen's poem "The Dark Tower," and then complete the sentences that follow.

We shall not always plant while others reap
The golden increment of bursting fruit,
Not always countenance, abject and mute,
That lesser men should hold their brothers cheap;
Not everlastingly while others sleep . . .

When Cullen speaks of planting while others reap, and standing "abject and mute," he is speaking about the injustices present in American society. As these injustices have changed over time, the American has also shifted. Those changes are, in turn, reflected in American literature.

Read this excerpt from Countee Cullen's poem "The Dark Tower," and then complete the sentences that follow.

We shall not always plant while others reap The golden increment of bursting fruit, Not always countenance, abject and mute, That lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; Not everlastingly while others sleep . . .

When Cullen speaks of planting while others reap, and standing "abject and mute," he is speaking about the (1.) injustices present in American society. As these injustices have changed over time, the American (2.) has also shifted. Those changes are, in turn, reflected in American literature.

1. A) racial

B) internal

C) casual

2. A) focus

B) identity

C) response

1. A. Racial

2.B.  Identity

Explanation:

When Cullen speaks of planting while others reap, and standing "abject and mute", he is speaking about the racial injustices in American society.

He was talking about the unfair treatment the blacks (and other minorities) have been receiving while a lot of people stood mute without doing anything to change it.

As these injustices have changed over time, the American identity has also shifted.

The injustices and unfair treatment changed the way people in America thought and acted, hence the identity shift.

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in a place once known as north america, now known as panem, is a very rich city surrounded by twelve districts. every year because this very rich city, known as the capitol, is so rich and likes to think they control all the districts - which they do - there is something known as the hunger games! this is where two children, one boy and one girl from each district from the ages of twelve to eighteen, have to leave their families and compete in the hunger games, a live event that is aired on tv's all over panem. when katniss everdeen, aged sixteen from district 12, has to volunteer to take the place of her twelve-year-old sister prim after prim's name is called forth to become the 23rd member to compete in the 74th hunger games, she promises to prim that she will win! katniss doesn't believe she's coming out alive - but she's not going down without a fight.

because district 12 is so poor, katniss has been close to death many times from starvation but she's made it through it. but this is a different kind of close to death; this katniss doesn't know if she can survive.

she doesn't want to hurt, or kill anyone but when it comes down to it katniss' instinct is to survive. but when she starts to have confusing feelings about the boy from her district who is also her fellow contender, things get worse, and then she teams up with the girl from district 11 and only one person can survive. but who will it be? will her feelings get the better of her? will she let someone else win so they don't have to die? if katniss is going to win she's going to have to be brutal. she's going to have to kill!