In Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, how does the figure of Shakespeare’s fictional sister work to make Woolf’s point? How fragile, according to Woolf, is female creativity?

1. What sentiments dominate Neruda’s poem United Fruit Company?

2. What is the function of Neruda’s mock Last Judgement?

3. From the Readings 36.6 The Poems of Langston Hughes – To what extent, do these circumstances remain?

4. In the poem The Mother by Gwendolyn Brooks, what is the poem describing?

5. Are Gwendolyn Brooks poems didactic and how so?

6. From Richard Wright’s The Ethics of Living Jim Crow, what is the plight of young blacks in the American South?

7. Is Wright’s character named Peace, a believable figure?

8. In Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s, Letter from Birmingham Jail, what argument does he make for nonviolence and negotiation?

9. In Malcom X’s Message to the Grass Roots, how does he justify black violence?

10. In Ralph Ellison’s The Invisible Man, what does Ellison’s protagonist mean when he says he is “an invisible Man”?

11. In Alice Walker’s Elethia, what are “Uncle Alberts”? What social contradictions does Walker attack in her story?

12. In Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, how does the figure of Shakespeare’s fictional sister work to make Woolf’s point? How fragile, according to Woolf, is female
creativity?

13. From Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, what circumstances work to make the female “the Oher”? Is there still “a world that belongs to men”?

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