2 Points Which excerpt from Nikolai Gogol's "The Nose" best helps to establish the
straightforward and matter-of-fact tone of the text?
A. "That is a lie! You won't get out of it like that. Confess the truth."
B. On the 25th March, 18-, a very strange occurrence took place in
St Petersburg.
C. "You vagabond! You good-for-nothing! Am I to undertake all
responsibility for you at the police office?"
D. "Whose nose have you cut off, you monster?" she screamed, her
face red with anger.
SUBMIT

The harlem renaissance dawned in an era of pervasive racism and segregation. although legally "free," many african americans were still bound by ideas that had their roots in the slavery of earlier centuries. identity and freedom are important ideas presented in many of the poems from the harlem renaissance. furthermore, the values of identity and freedom are not unique to particular times and places. as hughes expresses in "dream variations," all humans want to be able to develop their identities in freedom. what role does freedom play in the poems you read in this unit? what is required of a society to enable each individual to be true to his or her identity and be free to live by that identity? write about at least three of the poems, describing how the poet uses imagery to depict freedom and identity, the lack of it, or the desire for it.