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7th Grade Module 3, Mid-Unit 1, Part 1

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Grade 7 Mid Unit Assessment Module 3 Part 1 or 2

Directions: Read the poem "Lift Every Voice and Sing." Answer the questions below.

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Which of the following best describes the mood or overall feeling of the first stanza?

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In the second stanza, how do the phrases a way that with tears has been watered and treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered affect the meaning of the poem?

Reread the final lines of the second stanza and answer the question that follows:

Out from the gloomy past,
Till now we stand at last,
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.

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How do these ending lines build on the mood created earlier in the stanza?

Read the following excerpt from "Lift Every Voice and Sing" and answer the question that follows:

Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us.

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How does the repetition in these lines help convey the meaning of the lyrics?

Read the following excerpt from "Lift Every Voice and Sing" and answer the question that follows.

Yet with a steady beat,
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed.

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What does the phrase for which our fathers sighed tell us about the "place" where they find themselves?

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Which of the following best describes what the poem is about?