English Literature MCQs

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Charles W. Chesnutt used vernacular speech to________________?


aExplain how African Americans could not learn standard English


bMake his written inaccessible to white audiences


c To encourage feelings of pride in African American readers


dChallenge American stereotypes about race



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________________?


aDiscussion of race relations in the North and South.


b Condemnation of the plantation myth.


cExamination of the psychological damage of slavery.


d Insistence on desegregation.



According to Henry Louis Gates, Jr., reconstructing black people into the “New Negro” has been a matter of_______________?


aRedefining black people in terms of a presence, not an absence.


bWorking against the existing racist stereotypes.


cA struggle ongoing since 1619.


dAll of the above


View Answer All of the above

What unforgivable action does Mag Smith take in Chapter One of Our Nig ?


aShe tries to pass as White.


bShe washes clothes for White women.


cShe lets a man help her out.


d She marries a Black man.



The narrator of Langston Hughes’s “Weary Blues” is describing__________________?


aNegro spirituals being sung in the cotton fields.


bThe call and response of an African American church congregation.


cAfrican American toasting on a city street corner.


dBlues being played in a Harlem bar.



In Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem, “kitchenette building,” what is most important to the building’s inhabitants ?


aHaving a bathroom with warm water.


b Following one’s dreams.


cGetting food on the table.


dFinding a mate.



In Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild,” The Tlick keep the humans happy by_______________?


aSupplying them with narcotic eggs.


bLetting them choose their own mates.


cFreeing the males after they are hosts.


dPaying them very well.



In Nella Larsen’s novel Passing, why is Clare afraid to have another child ?


aShe almost died in childbirth with her first child.


b She doesn’t want to lose her figure.


cHer husband has threatened to leave her.


dShe is afraid it may have dark skin.



In what way is Jane Toomer’s Cane an example of Modernism ?


aIts fractured, collage effect.


bIts insistence on plot.


cIts focus on landscape.


dIts focus on modern city life.



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 ?


aBetrayal by the educational system.


bBetrayal by her sister.


cBetrayal by her community.


dBetrayal by a family member.



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