Context of To Kill A Mockingbird: Questions on Strange Fruit Answer the questions below in full sentences please, and use quotations where appropriate. ANSWER PROPERLY U P-RI-CK

1.Why were most lynching victims hung from trees? Would they have died this way had they been convicted of a crime in a court of law?.

2.What kinds of fruit do trees usually bear?. .

3.How do we know from the lyrics that the "strange" fruit here means the bodies of lynching victims?.

4.Why is it that Southern trees bear the "strange fruit"?.

5.What contrast is made between the "gallant South" and the South which bears strange fruit? What is ironic about this contrast?.

6.Meeropol almost called the poem “Bitter Fruit” but then changed it. What are the connotations of the words ‘bitter’ and ‘strange’ and why do you think he changed it?.
7.Why do you think the word "lynching" never appears in the song?. Single line text.

8.Do you think the song is more powerful, or less powerful, because its topic [lynching] is implied instead of stated?.

Select the contred text in the passage which sentence in this excerpt from john galsworthy's narrative essay "gone" reflects his view that there is no afterlife? an old woman and mrs. herd's sister were in the sitting-room, they showed us to the crazy, narrow stairway. though we lived distant but four hundred yards of a crows flight, we had never seen mrs. herd before, for that is the way of things in this land of minding one's own business a slight dark girlish-looking woman, almost quite refined away, and with those eyes of the dying, where the spirit is coming through, as it only does when it knows that al is over except just the passing. she lay in a double bed with clean white sheets. a white-washed room, so low that the ceiling almost touched our heads, some flowers in a bow, the small lattice window open. though it was hot in there, it was better far than the rooms of most families in towns, living on a wage of twice as much, for here was no sign of defeat in decency or cleanliness. in her face, as in poor herd's, was that same strange minging of resigned despair and almost eager appeal, so terrible to disappoint. yet, trying not to disappoint it, one felt guilty of treachery: what was the good, the kindness in making this poor bird flutter still with hope against the bars, when fast prison had so surely closed in round her? but what else could we do? we could not give her those glib assurances that naive souls make so easily to others concerning their after state. and the night was so beautiful, so utterly glamourously beautiful, with its star-flowers, and its silence and its trees clothed in moonlight. all was tranquil as a dream of sleep. but it was long before our hearts wandering with poor herd, would let us remember that she had slipped away into so beautiful a dream

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You make a necklace using blue.purple and green beads in aratio of 1: 1: 2.you use atotal of 168 beads. how many green beads are in the necklace