Characterize the narrator of “The Free Radio.” Based on information provided in the story, what opinion do you think the people in the village have about him? Why do you think Ramani writes to him from Bombay?

Note the references to DuBois throughout the essay. Does the writer make sufficient links to and explanations of her interpretation of DuBois? Are there too many references? Explain your answers by citing specific passages in the essay.

Who do you think is the “we” of the poem?

The following expressions involve the use of parentheses, dashes, hyphens, and apostrophes. Each item consists of three expressions. Two of the expressions are punctuated correctly; one is incorrect. Circle the letter of the incorrect expression, and then write that expression correctly on the line provided.

Example 1. $\boxed{[a]}$ Its not too late. [b] Jody's and my correspondence [c] pre-Reformation events

$$\underline{\text{It's not too late.}}$$

[a] Frank and my project [b] those girls' paintings [c] one's choice of college

The Misfit’s words are often given a phonetic rendering:
$\cdot$ “I pre-chate that, lady.” (para. $92$)
$\cdot$ “The boys want to ast you something.” (para. $94$)
$\cdot$ “I’ll look and see terrectly.” (para. $101$)
$\cdot$ “Nome.” (para. $107$)
$\cdot$ “I . . . seen a man burnt alive oncet.” (para. $109$)
$\cdot$ “I don’t want no hep.” (para. $121$)
What effect does this use of dialect have on your understanding of The Misfit’s character? What other characters in the story speak in dialect, and what does it say about them?

Contrast the description of the grandmother’s outfit with the rest of the family’s traveling attire (paras. $12, 69$). What do the characters’ clothes tell us about them? What is significant about The Misfit’s appropriation of Bailey’s parrot shirt (paras. $122–23$)?

What is the effect of Douglas’s creating forms that are both literal representations of African masks and suggestions of more abstract images?

What do the poems have in common in their descriptions of cities? What is different?

What are “long-headed jazzers” (ll. $4, 17$)?

Why does Olsen give us so much specific detail about Emily’s appearance? How do these descriptions contribute to her characterization? How is her appearance related to the choices she makes to distinguish herself, to stand out? What does the narrator mean when she says of Emily, “Now suddenly she was Somebody, and as imprisoned in her difference as she had been in anonymity” (para. $47$)?

In the final lines of the story, the narrator calls her daughter “a child of her age, of depression, of war, of fear” (para. $55$). How have historical events affected Emily’s development? How have they imposed limitations on her? How have they made her strong?

Explain how Henry James’s syntactical patterns contribute to the effect of the following prose passage from Daisy Miller.
She had been walking some quarter of an hour, attended by her two cavaliers, and responding in a tone of very childish gaiety, as it seemed to Winterbourne, to the petty speeches of Mr. Giovanelli, when a carriage that had detached itself from the revolving train drew up beside the path. At the same moment Winterbourne perceived that his friend Mrs. Walker — the lady whose house he had lately left — was seated in the vehicle and was beckoning to him. Leaving Miss Miller’s side, he hastened to obey her summons. Mrs. Walker was flushed; she wore an excited air. “It is really too dreadful,” she said. (para. $350$)

Reread the description of Daisy’s first appearance (para. $20$). What details does James include? What does he omit? Her brother says she’s “an American girl,” and Winterbourne comments that American girls are “the best girls.” What qualities in the description of Daisy seem particularly American? Who do you think “they” are in Winterbourne’s reaction: “How pretty they are”?

Do you think Dickinson is talking only about personal crumbling, or does the poem also apply to the ways society, or even humanity, falls victim to entropy? Use examples of her language to support your answer.