Que- In Lucille Clifton's "wishes for son," the narrator lists what wishes her sons ?
a. That they learn from her mistakes.
b. That they have richer lives than hers.
c. That they have all they ever wished for themselves.
d. That they experience all the pain and embarrassment of being a woman.
Answer- That they experience all the pain and embarrassment of being a woman.
Que- What was the Great Migration ?
a. A period of time when African Americans moved North in large numbers.
b. When African Americans settled Liberia.
c. When slaves traveled the Underground Railroad.
d. When African Americans migrated to the South from the North.
Answer- A period of time when African Americans moved North in large numbers.
Que- Some critics argue that the use of dialect by such authors as Paul Laurence Dunbar and Charles Chesnutt did all of the following except_______________?
a. Strengthened the African American's place in the world of literature
b. Perpetuated stereotypes
c. Allowed African American authors to sell their works more widely to white audiences
d. Showed that African Americans couldn't speak properly.
Answer- Showed that African Americans couldn't speak properly.
Que- African American dialects grew out of_______________?
a. The 1960s protest movements
b. The attempts of African slaves to communicate with each other
c. Slave owners teaching slaves Elizabethan English
d. Slaves' attempts to keep their conversations secret
Answer- The attempts of African slaves to communicate with each other
Que- In writing Beloved, Toni Morrison drew on what for inspiration ?
a. Her own memories of slavery.
b. Stories her grandmother told her.
c. The television series Roots.
d. Slave narratives.
Answer- Slave narratives.
Que- Slave narratives were shaped by_____________?
a. Captivity narratives.
b. Abolitionist newspaper accounts.
c. Folktales.
d. African mythology.
Answer- Captivity narratives.
Que- Brer Rabbit is an example of what kind of character ?
a. Trickster
b. Victim
c. Representation of the slave master
d. Uncle Tom character who feels slavery is best for the African American
Answer- Trickster
Que- In Jean Toomer's "Her Lips Are Copper Wires," a kiss is compared to_______________?
a. A waterfall.
b. Electricity.
c. A war.
d. A factory.
Answer- Electricity.
Que- Why does Dee want the quilt in Alice Walker's "Everyday Use" ?
a. She is proud of her heritage.
b. She doesn't want Maggie to have it.
c. She wants to display it for her friends to see.
d. She loves the beauty of it.
Answer- She wants to display it for her friends to see.
Que- In "125th Street and Abomey," Audre Lorde references images from ________________?
a. African mythology.
b. African American folktale.
c. Greek mythology.
d. Contemporary female artists.
Answer- African mythology.
Que- What source did David Walker rely on the most for support in "Appeal in Four Articles" ?
a. The Bible.
b. Greek history.
c. Slave narratives.
d. Abolitionist newspapers.
Answer- The Bible.
Que- What is the character of Delia most of afraid of in Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat" ?
a. Rabid dogs.
b. Her husband.
c. Snakes.
d. Bertha.
Answer- Snakes.
Que- Spirituals like "Go Down Moses" were important to African Americans because_______________?
a. They showed that a hero would deliver them from slavery.
b. They gave hope that God would deliver them from slavery.
c. They helped them do their work faster.
d. They were based on African songs.
Answer- They gave hope that God would deliver them from slavery.
Que- Arna Bontemps's "A Summer Tragedy" attacks the institution of________________?
a. Sharecropping.
b. Slavery.
c. Segregation.
d. Prostitution.
Answer- Sharecropping.
Que- David Walker's "Appeal in Four Articles" argues that_________________?
a. The races should not intermarry.
b. Christians the only ones not to blame for the existence of slavery.
c. Blacks have the duty to resist slavery.
d. Blacks should return to Africa.
Answer- Blacks have the duty to resist slavery.
Que- In Gwendolyn Brooks' poem, "we real cool," the Golden Shovel is_______________?
a. The name of a restaurant the pool players cannot enter.
b. A metaphor for colossal lies they have been buried with.
c. A metaphor for the pool players who are trying to dig out of their neighborhood.
d. The name of a pool hall.
Answer- The name of a pool hall.
Que- The importance of Lucy Terry's "Bars Flight" is________________?
a. The poem's form of rhymed tetrameter couplets.
b. The poem shows her future work as a advocate of civil rights.
c. The poem is filled with Christian symbolism.
d. The fact that the poem is the most accurate account of the 1742 Indian-White engagement in Deerfield, Massachusetts.
Answer- The fact that the poem is the most accurate account of the 1742 Indian-White engagement in Deerfield, Massachusetts.
Que- What is the subject of Lucille Clifton's "the lost baby poem" ?
a. A child dying of SIDS.
b. The stillborn death of a child.
c. Abortion.
d. A murdered child.
Answer- Abortion.
Que- Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail," King advocates_______________?
a. Breaking the law.
b. Using violence when necessary.
c. Waiting for times to get better.
d. Disobeying unjust laws.
Answer- Disobeying unjust laws.
Que- 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 ?
a. To describe the horrors of life on the Post-bellum plantation.
b. To explain his religious views.
c. To amuse the narrator's sickly wife.
d. So they won't interrupt his income from the neglected grape harvest.
Answer- So they won't interrupt his income from the neglected grape harvest.
Que- Uncle Julius is a character developed by______________?
a. Harriet Beecher Stowe
b. Joel Chandler Harris
c. Richard Wright
d. Charles Chesnutt
Answer- Charles Chesnutt
Que- The importance of Freedom's Journal was____________?
a. It was the first African American novel.
b. It was the first African American newspaper.
c. It was published by Frederick Douglass.
d. It argued for a separate African American community in America.
Answer- It was the first African American newspaper.
Que- All of the following are characteristics of the African American tradition of the toast except_____________?
a. Toasting is oral
b. Toasting is a male event
c. Toasting glorifies women
d. Toasting provides cultural identification
Answer- Toasting glorifies women
Que- In Chapter 11 of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, how does Malcolm X survive prison ?
a. Getting an education.
b. Fighting.
c. Making friends with the guards.
d. Contacting famous authors.
Answer- Getting an education.
Que- Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?
a. A Modernist poet
b. A performance poet
c. A classical poet
d. A traditional poet
Answer- A performance poet
Que- Although Charles Johnson's Oxherding Tales is based on his Buddhist beliefs, he meant the novel to be a reworking of an American genre, the slave narrative. In what way is the novel, despite its philosophical underpinnings, an exemplar of the slave narrative ?
a. Its character's movement from slavery to freedom.
b. Its emphasis on Christian ideals.
c. The novel's sensationalist scenes of violence.
d. Its didactic (teaching) tone of voice.
Answer- Its character's movement from slavery to freedom.
Que- The Day Duke Raised by Quincy Troupe is a jazz poem because______________?
a. The poem's rhythmic lines.
b. The references to jazz songs and musicians.
c. The poem can be set to music.
d. There is repetition.
Answer- The poem's rhythmic lines.
Que- In Chapter XV of William Wells Brown's Clotel, what characteristic of the sentimental novel is evident ?
a. The scene invokes audience sympathy.
b. The heroine has to balance autonomy with self-denial.
c. The heroine conquers her passions.
d. A and B E. B and C
Answer- A and B
Que- Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, an indictment of slavery ?
a. Harriet Beecher Stowe
b. Richard Wright
c. Frederick Douglass
d. Phillis Wheatley
Answer- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Que- Who wrote one of the most famous African American poems that begins with "what happens to a dream deferred" ?
a. Alice Walker
b. Etheridge Knight
c. Martin Luther King, Jr.
d. Langston Hughes
Answer- Langston Hughes
Que- The most important tenet of the Black Arts Movements is________________?
a. African American art should exclude women.
b. African American images should inspire African Americans.
c. African American art should subvert the art of Europeans and White Americans.
d. African American literature should replicate educated White language.
Answer- African American images should inspire African Americans.
Que- The genre Octavia Butler's "Bloodchild" is______________?
a. Mystery.
b. Science Fiction.
c. Horror.
d. Tragedy.
Answer- Science Fiction.
Que- In Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, living underground is symbolic of_____________?
a. The narrator's attempt to stay hidden.
b. The narrator's desire to be safe.
c. The narrator's invisibility to society.
d. The narrator's attempt to stay out of prison.
Answer- The narrator's invisibility to society.
Que- Why was the "drop of blood" rule developed ?
a. To keep the slave offspring of White slave owners from inheriting.
b. To allow mixed-race children to get scholarships meant for African Americans.
c. To make sure mothers of mixed-race children got custody.
d. To keep White slave owner parents of mixed-race offspring from having to pay for their children.
Answer- To keep the slave offspring of White slave owners from inheriting.
Que- What was special about Zora Neale Hurston's home town of Eatonville, Florida ?
a. It was home to the Harlem Renaissance.
b. Most of its inhabitants worked for White people.
c. It was primarily African American.
d. It was destroyed after the Civil War.
Answer- It was primarily African American.
Que- Which is not a characteristic of Realism ?
a. Characters are not as important as plot.
b. Presentation is objective.
c. Ordinary language is used.
d. Events are plausible.
Answer- Characters are not as important as plot.
Que- Etheridge Knight's "Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane," what is Hard Rock's function in the prison ?
a. To help the other inmates escape.
b. To win money by fighting.
c. To do what the other inmates were afraid to do.
d. To keep the Blacks and Whites separated.
Answer- To do what the other inmates were afraid to do.
Que- What does the term "passing" mean ?
a. The ability of an African American to live as a White person.
b. To do well on one's schoolwork.
c. To leave one's past behind.
d. To gain approval from one's community.
Answer- The ability of an African American to live as a White person.
Que- Alice Walker's novels often explore the abuse experienced by African American women. What is the only abuse Celie does not experience The Color Purple ?
a. Betrayal by the educational system.
b. Betrayal by her sister.
c. Betrayal by her community.
d. Betrayal by a family member.
Answer- Betrayal by her sister.
Que- In what way is Jane Toomer's Cane an example of Modernism ?
a. Its fractured, collage effect.
b. Its insistence on plot.
c. Its focus on landscape.
d. Its focus on modern city life.
Answer- Its fractured, collage effect.
Que- In Nella Larsen's novel Passing, why is Clare afraid to have another child ?
a. She almost died in childbirth with her first child.
b. She doesn't want to lose her figure.
c. Her husband has threatened to leave her.
d. She is afraid it may have dark skin.
Answer- She is afraid it may have dark skin.
Que- In Octavia Butler's "Bloodchild," The Tlick keep the humans happy by_______________?
a. Supplying them with narcotic eggs.
b. Letting them choose their own mates.
c. Freeing the males after they are hosts.
d. Paying them very well.
Answer- Supplying them with narcotic eggs.
Que- In Gwendolyn Brooks' poem, "kitchenette building," what is most important to the building's inhabitants ?
a. Having a bathroom with warm water.
b. Following one's dreams.
c. Getting food on the table.
d. Finding a mate.
Answer- Having a bathroom with warm water.
Que- The narrator of Langston Hughes's "Weary Blues" is describing__________________?
a. Negro spirituals being sung in the cotton fields.
b. The call and response of an African American church congregation.
c. African American toasting on a city street corner.
d. Blues being played in a Harlem bar.
Answer- Blues being played in a Harlem bar.
Que- What unforgivable action does Mag Smith take in Chapter One of Our Nig ?
a. She tries to pass as White.
b. She washes clothes for White women.
c. She lets a man help her out.
d. She marries a Black man.
Answer- She marries a Black man.
Que- According to Henry Louis Gates, Jr., reconstructing black people into the "New Negro" has been a matter of_______________?
a. Redefining black people in terms of a presence, not an absence.
b. Working against the existing racist stereotypes.
c. A struggle ongoing since 1619.
d. All of the above
Answer- All of the above
Que- Neo-Slave narratives are contemporary novels written about slavery. Toni Morrison's Beloved is about the ghost of a baby the character Sethe murdered to keep her from being recaptured by their master. The opening chapter of the novel represents the neo-slave narrative by its________________?
a. Discussion of race relations in the North and South.
b. Condemnation of the plantation myth.
c. Examination of the psychological damage of slavery.
d. Insistence on desegregation.
Answer- Examination of the psychological damage of slavery.
Que- Charles W. Chesnutt used vernacular speech to________________?
a. Explain how African Americans could not learn standard English
b. Make his written inaccessible to white audiences
c. To encourage feelings of pride in African American readers
d. Challenge American stereotypes about race
Answer- Challenge American stereotypes about race
Que- Booker T. Washington's message in Up from Slavery is_______________?
a. Whites should pay reparations to former slaves.
b. African Americans should acculturate to mainstream White culture.
c. White institutions should reform to meet African American needs.
d. African Americans will have to help themselves by becoming educated.
Answer- African Americans will have to help themselves by becoming educated.
Que- For Booker T. Washington, racial uplift means_______________?
a. Rejecting all White assistance.
b. Allowing Whites to help African Americans to reach their potential.
c. Calling for violent uprisings.
d. Separating Blacks by income level
Answer- Allowing Whites to help African Americans to reach their potential.