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Who wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl ?


aLucy Terry


bWilliam Wells Brown


cHarriet Wilson


dHarriet Jacobs


View Answer Harriet Jacobs

Sonia Sanchez’s “right on: white america” is protesting________________?


aThe extermination of Native Americans.


bThat there is a Black America and a White America.


cBlack on black violence.


d The fact that America still has a frontier mentality.



Why is the couple in Arna Bontemps’s “A Summer Tragedy” getting dressed up ?


a To go to a party.


bTo go pay old man Stevenson.


cTo end their lives.


d To go to church.


View Answer To end their lives.

The theme of Phillis Wheatley’s “On Being Brought from Africa to America” is_______________?


aSlaves are capable of becoming good Christians.


bSlaves should rebel against the Christian religion.


cSlaves are the children of Cain.


dChristians should free their slaves.



The fact that Claude McKay visited Russia in 1922 exemplifies the following theme of Modernism_____________?


aCollectivism versus the authority of the individual.


b The wearing away of traditional class structures.


cThe impact of WWI and the 1918 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.


dThe disassociated, anomic self.



One of the functions of protest poetry was to________________?


aUrge African Americans to fight their oppressors.


bEncourage societies strive for equality for all.


cExtol the virtues of living in the free North.


dArgue that slavery was not so bad for everyone.



Native Son was written by___________________?


aJean Toomer.


bRichard Wright.


cRalph Ellison.


dJames Baldwin.


View Answer Richard Wright.

According to Larry Neal, the primary goal of the Black Arts Movement is_______________?


aTo speak to the spiritual and cultural needs of African Americans.


bTo raise awareness of violence in African American youth.


c To support the Back to Africa Movement.


dTo raise money for Sickle Cell Anemia research.



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 ?


a Giving words double meaning that appear differently to white and black readers.


bFixing words with very specific meanings.


cMaking sure that what is written makes sense.


dLying to mislead the reader.



Frederick Douglass argued that slaves sang spirituals for all of the following reasons except______________?


a To impress the horrors of slavery on listeners


bTo ease their pain


c To pray for deliverance


dTo show that they were content in their work



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