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thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged wildly inside myself; I yell within, I whoop; I
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upon, and overswept, but through it all, I remain shake my assegai above my head, I hurl it true
myself. When covered by the waters, I am; and to the mark yeeeeooww! I am in the jungle and chapter 4
the ebb but reveals me again. living in the jungle way. My face is painted red
and yellow and my body is painted blue. My
• • • pulse is throbbing like a war drum. I want to
slaughter something — give pain, give death to
Sometimes it is the other way around. A white what, I do not know. But the piece ends. The
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is just as sharp for me. For instance, when I sit in their fingers. I creep back slowly to the veneer
the drafty basement that is The New World we call civilization with the last tone and find
Cabaret with a white person, my color comes. the white friend sitting motionless in his seat,
We enter chatting about any little nothing that smoking calmly.
we have in common and are seated by the jazz “Good music they have here,” he remarks,
waiters. In the abrupt way that jazz orchestras drumming the table with his fingertips.
have, this one plunges into a number. It loses no Music. The great blobs of purple and red 10
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time in circumlocutions, but gets right down to emotion have not touched him. He has only
business. It constricts the thorax and splits the heard what I felt. He is far away and I see him
heart with its tempo and narcotic harmonies. but dimly across the ocean and the continent
This orchestra grows rambunctious, rears on that have fallen between us. He is so pale with
its hind legs and attacks the tonal veil with his whiteness then and I am so colored.
primitive fury, rending it, clawing it until it 1928
breaks through to the jungle beyond. I follow
those heathen — follow them exultingly. I dance 2 African spear. — Eds.

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1. In paragraph 2, the writer presents herself as an 2. In paragraph 1, the writer remarks, “I remember The answer key for the AP ®
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town, causing embarrassment a. traveling to an area where she is no longer
b. curiously observes life around her and recognized for her individual personality
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causing visitors to feel welcome e. going to jazz clubs where she sits next to
white people who do not react to the music
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