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1 - According to Henry Louis Gates, Jr., reconstructing black people into the "New Negro" has been a matter of_______________?
All of the above
2 - According to Larry Neal, the primary goal of the Black Arts Movement is_______________?
To speak to the spiritual and cultural needs of African Americans.
3 - African American dialects grew out of_______________?
The attempts of African slaves to communicate with each other
4 - 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 ?
Betrayal by her sister.
5 - Alice Walker's story, "Everyday Use," includes which "Womanist" concern ?
The negative consequences of feminism on the African American family.
6 - All of the following are characteristics of the African American tradition of the toast except_____________?
Toasting glorifies women
7 - 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 ?
Its character's movement from slavery to freedom.
8 - Although different in tone, Soujourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman" and David Walker's "Appeal in Four Articles" are similar in what way ?
Their appeals to Christians.
9 - Arna Bontemps's "A Summer Tragedy" attacks the institution of________________?
Sharecropping.
10 - Booker T. Washington's message in Up from Slavery is_______________?
African Americans will have to help themselves by becoming educated.
11 - Brer Rabbit is an example of what kind of character ?
Trickster
12 - Charles W. Chesnutt used vernacular speech to________________?
Challenge American stereotypes about race
13 - David Walker's "Appeal in Four Articles" argues that_________________?
Blacks have the duty to resist slavery.
14 - During the early 20th century, a black person's purpose in passing might have been_________________?
To get better accommodations on the train, better seats in the theatre.
15 - Etheridge Knight's "Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane," what is Hard Rock's function in the prison ?
To do what the other inmates were afraid to do.
16 - For Booker T. Washington, racial uplift means_______________?
Allowing Whites to help African Americans to reach their potential.
17 - Frederick Douglass argued that slaves sang spirituals for all of the following reasons except______________?
To show that they were content in their work
18 - 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.
19 - Harriet Jacobs wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl to show______________?
How females were affected by slavery.
20 - In "125th Street and Abomey," Audre Lorde references images from ________________?
African mythology.
21 - In Chapter 11 of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, how does Malcolm X survive prison ?
Getting an education.
22 - In Chapter Three of Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery, Washington's primary goal is to______________?
Get an education.
23 - In Chapter XV of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, where did Linda hide ?
With a friend.
24 - In Chapter XV of William Wells Brown's Clotel, Clotel is described as a quadroon. What does this mean ?
She is one-quarter Black.
25 - In Chapter XV of William Wells Brown's Clotel, what characteristic of the sentimental novel is evident ?
A and B E. B and C
26 - 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.
27 - 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 ?
So they won't interrupt his income from the neglected grape harvest.
28 - In Gwendolyn Brooks' poem, "kitchenette building," what is most important to the building's inhabitants ?
Having a bathroom with warm water.
29 - In Gwendolyn Brooks' poem, "we real cool," the Golden Shovel is_______________?
The name of a pool hall.
30 - In Jean Toomer's "Her Lips Are Copper Wires," a kiss is compared to_______________?
Electricity.
31 - In Lucille Clifton's "wishes for son," the narrator lists what wishes her sons ?
That they experience all the pain and embarrassment of being a woman.
32 - In Nella Larsen's novel Passing, why is Clare afraid to have another child ?
She is afraid it may have dark skin.
33 - 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?
Frederick Douglass
34 - In Octavia Butler's "Bloodchild," The Tlick keep the humans happy by_______________?
Supplying them with narcotic eggs.
35 - In Paul Laurence Dunbar's "When Malindy Sings," what kind of music is Malindy singing ?
Gospel.
36 - In Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, living underground is symbolic of_____________?
The narrator's invisibility to society.
37 - 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.
38 - In the United States, Reconstruction_______________?
Is the time period that followed the Civil War.
39 - In what way is Jane Toomer's Cane an example of Modernism ?
Its fractured, collage effect.
40 - In writing Beloved, Toni Morrison drew on what for inspiration ?
Slave narratives.
41 - Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail," King advocates_______________?
Disobeying unjust laws.
42 - Native Son was written by___________________?
Richard Wright.
43 - 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________________?
Examination of the psychological damage of slavery.
44 - One of the functions of protest poetry was to________________?
Encourage societies strive for equality for all.
45 - Phillis Wheatley's poetry is considered_____________?
Typical of Colonial poetry.
46 - Race relations in the North are attacked in_______________?
Harriet Wilson's Our Nig.
47 - Richard Wright said he created the character of Bigger in Native Son because______________?
He had known many "Biggers" in his life.
48 - Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?
A performance poet
49 - Slave narratives were shaped by_____________?
Captivity narratives.
50 - Slavery in the United States was officially abolished in ______________?
1865
51 - Some critics argue that the use of dialect by such authors as Paul Laurence Dunbar and Charles Chesnutt did all of the following except_______________?
Showed that African Americans couldn't speak properly.
52 - Sonia Sanchez's "right on: white america" is protesting________________?
The fact that America still has a frontier mentality.
53 - Spirituals like "Go Down Moses" were important to African Americans because_______________?
They gave hope that God would deliver them from slavery.
54 - The "tragic mulatto" myth_________________?
Led to novels of passing.
55 - The back to Africa movement was primarily about______________?
Completing an oppressed people's quest for freedom, liberty and democracy.
56 - The characteristic of Naturalism that is most present in the first chapter of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man is_____________?
The theme of man against man.
57 - The classification of vowels into close vowels and open vowels is based on ________________?
The height to which the tongue is raised
58 - The classification of vowels into half__close vowels and half__open vowels is based on ________________?
The height to which the tongue is raised
59 - The Day Duke Raised by Quincy Troupe is a jazz poem because______________?
The poem's rhythmic lines.
60 - The fact that Claude McKay visited Russia in 1922 exemplifies the following theme of Modernism_____________?
The impact of WWI and the 1918 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.
61 - The genre Octavia Butler's "Bloodchild" is______________?
Science Fiction.
62 - The importance of Freedom's Journal was____________?
It was the first African American newspaper.
63 - The importance of Lucy Terry's "Bars Flight" is________________?
The fact that the poem is the most accurate account of the 1742 Indian-White engagement in Deerfield, Massachusetts.
64 - The mask in Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem, "We Wear the Mask," represents_____________?
The persona that the characters show the world.
65 - The most important tenet of the Black Arts Movements is________________?
African American images should inspire African Americans.
66 - The narrator of Langston Hughes's "Weary Blues" is describing__________________?
Blues being played in a Harlem bar.
67 - The subject of Soujourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman" is_______________?
A and B.
68 - The supportive network of female slaves led to_______________?
Resistance against dehumanization.
69 - The term "Civil Disobedience" was coined by which author ?
Henry David Thoreau
70 - The theme of Phillis Wheatley's "On Being Brought from Africa to America" is_______________?
Slaves are capable of becoming good Christians.
71 - Uncle Julius is a character developed by______________?
Charles Chesnutt
72 - Until recent years it was thought that Harriet Jacob's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was____________?
Fiction written by Lydia Maria Child.
73 - What does the term "passing" mean ?
The ability of an African American to live as a White person.
74 - What is the character of Delia most of afraid of in Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat" ?
Snakes.
75 - What is the subject of Lucille Clifton's "the lost baby poem" ?
Abortion.
76 - What source did David Walker rely on the most for support in "Appeal in Four Articles" ?
The Bible.
77 - What unforgivable action does Mag Smith take in Chapter One of Our Nig ?
She marries a Black man.
78 - What was special about Zora Neale Hurston's home town of Eatonville, Florida ?
It was primarily African American.
79 - What was the Great Migration ?
A period of time when African Americans moved North in large numbers.
80 - Which among the following are bilabial plosive sounds in English?
/p/ & /b/
81 - Which among the following pairs are Velar plosives ?
/k/ & /g/
82 - Which author relied on complex characters and dialect to overturn American stereotypes about Southern African Americans ?
Charles Chesnutt
83 - Which characteristic of the slave narrative did Frederick Douglass include in the first chapter of his Narrative ?
The author's father is often a white man.
84 - Which is not a characteristic of Realism ?
Characters are not as important as plot.
85 - Which of the following authors was not of mixed race heritage ?
Booker T. Washington
86 - Which of the following statements about slavery is true ?
Most slave children lived in two family homes.
87 - Who introduced the character of the "tragic mulatto" ?
Lydia Maria Child
88 - Who is the author of the novel Passing ?
Nella Larsen.
89 - Who wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl ?
Harriet Jacobs
90 - Who wrote one of the most famous African American poems that begins with "what happens to a dream deferred" ?
Langston Hughes
91 - Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, an indictment of slavery ?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
92 - Why did Marcus Garvey spearhead the "Back to Africa Movement" ?
Because he did not feel African Americans would ever achieve equality in America.
93 - Why does Dee want the quilt in Alice Walker's "Everyday Use" ?
She wants to display it for her friends to see.
94 - Why is the couple in Arna Bontemps's "A Summer Tragedy" getting dressed up ?
To end their lives.
95 - 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) ?
In order for people to believe the events in the narratives.
96 - Why was the "drop of blood" rule developed ?
To keep the slave offspring of White slave owners from inheriting.
97 - Yusef Komunyakaa's "Blue Dementia" is an example of what kind of poetry ?
Jazz poetry
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