15. the speaker in the poem “hanging fire" is point)
a fourteen-year-old african american girl.
a ten-year-old white boy.
an immigrant girl who is homeless.
the mother of a fourteen year old in trouble.
i know why the caged bird sings
choose the best answer for question 16.
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16. henry reed inspires the audience at the graduation ceremony to
a. ask the invited white speakers to leave
b. stand up and shout down the invited speakers
c. sing the negro national anthem
d. walk out of the auditorium in silent protest

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.