Discuss Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, written in 1959, in the context of the kind of issues that were at the center of the civil rights marches of the 1960s. Discuss As Is by William Hoffmann or The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer (both produced in 1985) in the context of the treatment and understanding of gays at the height of the AIDS crisis.

What will be an ideal response?


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The sailors' apparent indifference in Degas' A Fair Wind suggests

a. a child's perspective. b. an inability to depict three-dimensional space. c. a candid photograph. d. that the figures are drunk.

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Which statement best describes the cadenza?

a) they appear only in the first movement and were never improvised b) they appear only in the second movement and may or may not have been improvised c) they can appear in every movement, particularly the first, were expected to be (or at least appear to be) moments of intense improvisation d) they appear only in the third movement and were always improvised

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