Let America Be America Again

Who does the speaker identify as in the poem?

• A wealthy businessman

• A foreign diplomat

• The people who dreamt of a better America

• A famous politician

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What does the speaker swear America will be?

• A leader in environmental conservation

• A country without conflict

• The largest economy in the world

• A land where every man is free

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What does the speaker say must be redeemed by the people?

• Lost cultural values

• The national debt

• The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers

• Historical monuments

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The poem highlights the gap between the American dream and the reality faced by many.

This is an example of:

• Anaphora

• Rhyme scheme

• Contrast

• Point of view

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Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed —
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.

Who are "the dreamers" in this stanza?

• the poor whites, immigrants, and African-Americans

• the British

• the oppressed people who left England to start a new country

• the Native Americans

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In the poem, what did the people who came to America think that it would be like?

• there would be equality

• there would be racism

• there would be unfair wages (payment for work)

• there would be hardships

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One of the earliest innovators of jazz poetry, poetry that "demonstrates jazz-like rhythm." Significant works include "I, Too," "Let America be America Again."

• Langston Hughes

• Duke Ellington

• Aaron Douglas

• W. E. B. Du Bois

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What were the two speakers in Hughes's poem "Let America be America Again" discussing?

• How blue collar workers need appreciation and recognition for their contributions to America

• How America needs to go back to the ways it was before

• If the American Dream truly was and has always been available to everyone

• The differing meanings of the American Dream based on their perspectives

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In Hughes's poem "Let America be America Again" speaker 2 argues that in order for everyone to have access to the American Dream America needs to...

• Actually become what everyone thinks it always was by promoting equality

• Go back to the way it was before

• Accept immigrants and help them contribute to America

• Promote unity and togetherness

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Who is the author of the poem 'Let America Be America Again'?

• A) Langston Hughes

• B) Robert Frost

• C) Maya Angelou

• D) Walt Whitman

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