Historical Context
1948 Characters
"For My People"
Random Mercer County Facts
Literary Periods
100
War that signals the beginning of this literary period.
What is World War II?
100
A character who abuses power.
Who is Frank?
100
The poem is about this people group.
Who are African American people?
100
The shape of the sheriffs badge.
What is a shield?
100
Montana 1948 was written during this literary period.
What is contemporary literature?
200
Name of the type of literature written during this period.
What is postmodern literature?
200
A character whose sickness and death propel the story.
Who is Marie?
200
Who the reader of the poem believes the poem applies to.
Who is everyone?
200
Across the street from David Hayden's house.
Where is the court house?
200
“He played that sad raggy tune like a musical fool. / Sweet Blues! / Coming from a black man’s soul. / O Blues!” was written during this literary period.
What is the modern period?
300
A war that Lincoln describes as being fought through periphery wars.
What is the Cold War?
300
A history teacher.
Who is David Hayden?
300
Repeated line in the poem.
What is "For my people..."?
300
Location of Mercer County.
What is northeast Montana? What is close to Canada and North Dakota?
300
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal…” and “It was His own, it was not mine, / Far be it that I should repine.” are both quotes from this literary period.
What is the Puritan and Deist period?
400
Two movements that influenced contemporary literature.
What is The Civil Rights Movement and the Digital Revolution?
400
Marie's boyfriend.
Who is Ronnie Tall Bear?
400
The line that represents a turn in the poem.
What is "Let a new earth rise"?
400
"His guests shivered again. A strange chillness, whether of body or spirit they could not tell, was creeping gradually over them all," was written during this literary period.
What is the romantic period?
400
“If all stories were true, Dr. Heidegger’s study must have been a very curious place. It was a dim, old-fashioned chamber, festooned with cobwebs, and besprinkled with antique dust” was written during this literary period.
What is the romantic period?
500
Three characteristics of literature created during this time period?
What is allowing multiple meanings and worlds? What is using nontraditional structures and forms? What is intensely personal? What is featuring cultural diversity? What is blending fiction and nonfiction?
500
An Indian who is well-respected by white people in Mercer County.
Who is Ollie Young Bear?
500
Name of the reader.
Who is Leah Ward Sears?
500
“My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its place; and I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, that day had passed forever when I could be a lave in fact," was written by Frederick Douglass during this literary period.
What is the realist period?
500
Kate Chopin wrote "A Pair of Silk Stockings" during this literary period.
What is the realist period?
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