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MCQs 1: African American dialects grew out of_______________?
The 1960s protest movements
The attempts of African slaves to communicate with each other
Slave owners teaching slaves Elizabethan English
Slaves’ attempts to keep their conversations secret
MCQs 2: In writing Beloved, Toni Morrison drew on what for inspiration ?
Her own memories of slavery.
Stories her grandmother told her.
The television series Roots.
Slave narratives.
MCQs 3: Slave narratives were shaped by_____________?
MCQs 4: Brer Rabbit is an example of what kind of character ?
Trickster
Victim
Representation of the slave master
“Uncle Tom” character who feels slavery is best for the African American
MCQs 5: In Jean Toomer’s “Her Lips Are Copper Wires,” a kiss is compared to_______________?
MCQs 6: Why does Dee want the quilt in Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” ?
She is proud of her heritage.
She doesn’t want Maggie to have it.
She wants to display it for her friends to see.
She loves the beauty of it.
MCQs 7: In “125th Street and Abomey,” Audre Lorde references images from ________________?
MCQs 8: What source did David Walker rely on the most for support in “Appeal in Four Articles” ?
MCQs 9: What is the character of Delia most of afraid of in Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat” ?
MCQs 10: Spirituals like “Go Down Moses” were important to African Americans because_______________?
They showed that a hero would deliver them from slavery.
They gave hope that God would deliver them from slavery.
They helped them do their work faster.
They were based on African songs.
MCQs 11: Arna Bontemps’s “A Summer Tragedy” attacks the institution of________________?
MCQs 12: David Walker’s “Appeal in Four Articles” argues that_________________?
The races should not intermarry.
Christians the only ones not to blame for the existence of slavery.
Blacks have the duty to resist slavery.
Blacks should return to Africa.
MCQs 13: Slave owners resisted abolition for what reason ?
Slaveholders objected to losing leisure time.
Slaves outnumbered non-slaves and might rebel.
Slaveholders felt economic security rested on the system of slavery.
B and C.
A and C.
MCQs 14: In Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem, “we real cool,” the Golden Shovel is_______________?
The name of a restaurant the pool players cannot enter.
A metaphor for colossal lies they have been buried with.
A metaphor for the pool players who are trying to dig out of their neighborhood.
The name of a pool hall.
MCQs 15: The importance of Lucy Terry’s “Bars Flight” is________________?
The poem’s form of rhymed tetrameter couplets.
The poem shows her future work as a advocate of civil rights.
The poem is filled with Christian symbolism.
The fact that the poem is the most accurate account of the 1742 Indian-White engagement in Deerfield, Massachusetts.
MCQs 16: What is the subject of Lucille Clifton’s “the lost baby poem” ?
MCQs 17: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” King advocates_______________?
Breaking the law.
Using violence when necessary.
Waiting for times to get better.
Disobeying unjust laws.
MCQs 18: In Charles Chesnutt’s “The Goophered Grape Vine,” why does Uncle Julius tell the Northern visitors the story of the spell put on the grapes ?
To describe the horrors of life on the Post-bellum plantation.
To explain his religious views.
To amuse the narrator’s sickly wife.
So they won’t interrupt his income from the neglected grape harvest.
MCQs 19: Uncle Julius is a character developed by______________?
MCQs 20: The importance of Freedom’s Journal was____________?
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