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MCQs 1: In Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “A Cabin Tale,” which character is a trickster figure?
MCQs 2: The importance of Lucy Terry’s “Bars Fight” is______________?
The poem is the first-known writing of an African American.
The poem is better than the poems of the more famous Phillis Wheatley.
The poem is the first of many poems by Terry.
The poetry focuses on slave life in the 18th century.
MCQs 3: The character of Delia in Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat” was influenced by______________?
MCQs 4: The trickster figure is usually_______________?
MCQs 5: In Chapter XV of William Wells Brown’s Clotel, Clotel is described as a quadroon. What does this mean ?
MCQs 6: Yusef Komunyakaa’s “Blue Dementia” is an example of what kind of poetry ?
MCQs 7: Harriet Jacobs wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl to show______________?
That female slaves were escaping more frequently than men.
How slavery was worse for men.
How females were affected by slavery.
That female slaves were more valuable than male slaves.
MCQs 8: In Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “When Malindy Sings,” what kind of music is Malindy singing ?
MCQs 9: In Chapter XV of William Wells Brown’s Clotel, why was Clotel made to cut her long hair ?
The mistress of the house was afraid her husband would be attracted to Clotel.
To keep the lice away.
So that the other slaves would get along with her.
So she could sell it.
MCQs 10: The term “Civil Disobedience” was coined by which author ?
MCQs 11: The subject of Soujourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman” is_______________?
The rights of farm hands.MCQs 12: In Nikki Giovanni’s “The American Vision of Lincoln,” the poet argues that the Capitol needs a statue of _____________next to the one of Abraham Lincoln?
MCQs 13: Why was it important that slave narratives have a title page that claimed either that the narrative was written by the narrator himself (or his words were recorded by someone close to him, preferably white) ?
So the author could get paid.
In order for people to believe the events in the narratives.
So that slave owners could refute the events in the narratives.
So that the author could be assured he wouldn’t be recaptured.
MCQs 14: Which author relied on complex characters and dialect to overturn American stereotypes about Southern African Americans ?
MCQs 15: Harriet Jacob’s slave narrative Incidents in the Life differs from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s abolitionist novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin in what way ?
Stowe’s novel is sentimental.
Stowe describes the treatment of slaves.
Stowe describes the escape of slaves.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin was used by abolitionists.
MCQs 16: Which characteristic of the slave narrative did Frederick Douglass include in the first chapter of his Narrative ?
Narration of a deserved punishment.
Depictions of a beautiful rural environment.
Descriptions of the kinds of food and clothing slaves were given.
The author’s father is often a white man.
MCQs 17: Frederick Douglass argued that slaves sang spirituals for all of the following reasons except______________?
To impress the horrors of slavery on listeners
To ease their pain
To pray for deliverance
To show that they were content in their work
MCQs 18: In the poem “When Malindy Sings,” Paul Laurence Dunbar uses irony and caricature to “signify” on white assumptions about African Americans. What does Henry Louis Gate’s term “signify” mean ?
Giving words double meaning that appear differently to white and black readers.
Fixing words with very specific meanings.
Making sure that what is written makes sense.
Lying to mislead the reader.
MCQs 19: According to Larry Neal, the primary goal of the Black Arts Movement is_______________?
To speak to the spiritual and cultural needs of African Americans.
To raise awareness of violence in African American youth.
To support the Back to Africa Movement.
To raise money for Sickle Cell Anemia research.
MCQs 20: Native Son was written by___________________?
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