English Literature MCQs

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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.


cTo leave one’s past behind.


dTo gain approval from one’s community.



Etheridge Knight’s “Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane,” what is Hard Rock’s function in the prison ?


aTo help the other inmates escape.


b To win money by fighting.


cTo do what the other inmates were afraid to do.


dTo keep the Blacks and Whites separated.



Which is not a characteristic of Realism ?


aCharacters are not as important as plot.


bPresentation is objective.


cOrdinary language is used.


dEvents are plausible.



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.


cIt was primarily African American.


dIt was destroyed after the Civil War.



Why was the “drop of blood” rule developed ?


aTo 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.


dTo keep White slave owner parents of mixed-race offspring from having to pay for their children.



In Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, living underground is symbolic of_____________?


aThe narrator’s attempt to stay hidden.


bThe narrator’s desire to be safe.


cThe narrator’s invisibility to society.


dThe narrator’s attempt to stay out of prison.



The genre Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild” is______________?


aMystery


bScience Fiction.


cHorror


dTragedy


View Answer Science Fiction.

The most important tenet of the Black Arts Movements is________________?


aAfrican American art should exclude women.


bAfrican American images should inspire African Americans.


cAfrican American art should subvert the art of Europeans and White Americans.


dAfrican American literature should replicate educated White language.



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


cMartin Luther King, Jr.


dLangston Hughes


View Answer Langston Hughes

Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, an indictment of slavery ?


aHarriet Beecher Stowe


bRichard Wright


cFrederick Douglass


dPhillis Wheatley


View Answer Harriet Beecher Stowe

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