Omprehension the questions below refer to the selection “the negro speaks of rivers”. what do the rivers named in “the negro speaks of rivers” have in common? a. they are in africa. b. they are historically important to the speaker. c. they have yearly floods. d. famous dams have been built on them. select the best answer from the choices provided a b c d

The best answer is b. They are historically important to the speaker.

"The Black Speaks of Rivers" is a poem written by American writer Langston Hughes when he was 17 and traveled by train across the Mississippi River to visit his father who lived in Mexico in 1920.

In his lines he expresses the importance of the four rivers mentioned throughout history through a literary resource that allows him to describe a succession of historical landmarks represented by these rivers interpreted as personal memories of different stages of his life.

The Euphrates River symbolizes the dawn of human culture, the Congo River represents the home of their ancestors who were then taken to slavery represented by the Nile River, where they forced him to work in building the power of their oppressors, finally the River Mississippi represents the liberation of the slavery granted by Lincoln when winning the American Civil War giving new perspectives of future to its youth.