Select the word that is synonymous to the underlined word.
1. “true, there were some among these quiet people who flouted the law, poachers bent on making more money in one night than they could earn in a whole month in the flax sheds.…” (1 point)enforced

obeyed

defied

enacted

2. “kugler, ferdinand was a thief before his tenth year and an inveterate liar.” (1 point)habitual
believable
undetectable
entertaining

3. “but really, why don’t you…why don’t you yourself do the judging? ” kugler asked pensively.
(1 point)regretfully
eagerly
happily
thoughtfully

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.