question and answers for as i grew older
Answers
Explanation:
Question 1: What have the poet forgotten?
A. his son
B. his dream
C. his mother
D. his identity
Answer : B
Question 2: what did the poet’s dream look like?
A. A lamp
B. A shadow
C. A terrorist
D. A sun
Answer: D
Question 3: What hindered the poet’s dream?
A. the wall
B. the shadow
Answer: A
Question 4: what was the poet intention at the end of the poem?
A. to give up and stop dreaming.
B. to fulfill his dream.
C. to regret the idea of being ambitious
D. to break the wall down, and fulfill his first dream and many others dreams.
Answer: D
HOTS questions (questions worth 10 points each):
Question 5: "In your opinion, what does the wall look like? Explain!
Answer: it seems to me the word “wall” includes different terms that describe prejudice, racism and discrimination. These elements resemble the different utterances of “injustice” that the poet encountered.
Question 6: What is the message of the poem?
Answer: the message of the poem is to struggle and resist till the final moment without having any doubt to success. At the beginning of the poem, the poet shows how it is cruel to be discriminated due to the fact of being black; and how this made him to forget his dream. Rather, at the end of the poem he decided to emphasize/demonstrate the future frame when he planned to fight against the wall and take a stand in order to fulfill his dream and “thousands lights of sun”.
Question 7: do you think that the poem is only about racism? What other kinds of “walls” might prevent someone from achieving his dream?
Answer: racism is one of the patterns of lack of dreams achieving. There are different types of walls that may hinder people’s dream such as, poverty, lack of education (illiteracy), norms and social habits
Extended HOTS questions
(15 points , 10 points for the answer and 5 points for use of the HOTS)
Question 8 : what has caused the poet to be pessimistic at the beginning of the poem?
Answer:
Thinking skill: Expaining Cause and Effect
The obstacles of having a black skin, racial discrimination and prejudice made the poet pessimistic and frustrated. These obstacles were the wall that rose more and more; as well as this caused him to believe that he would not achieve his dream anymore due to these painful elements
Bridging Text and Context (one question which is worth 20 points)
Question 9 : "When Langston Hughes wrote the poem As I Grew Older (1925), African Americans were discriminated against. They were prevented from using the same bathrooms and restaurants as whites and were forced to sit at the back of the bus. Essentially, the United States of America was a racist society with racist laws." ---- Hamlet Pericles
How does the above quote add to your understanding of the poem As I Grew Older?
Support your answer with examples from the poem.
Answer: - The above quote shows how African-Americans like Langston Hughes (the poet) were socially discriminated and proves the injustice that is demonstrated in the whole poem. This is obvious in different examples of the poem such as “I am black”, “my dark hands”. This quote emphasizes the fact that people are treated and judged by their colors; and this is an accurate evidence of discrimination that the quote shows.