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African American Literature Quiz 1 (60 MCQs)

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1. What did Malcolm X discover when he was in jail?
2. The dialogue between a singer / storyteller and the audience.
3. In the language of the railroad, who helped slaves escape?
4. The first popular Slave Narrative published by a former enslaved person was by .....
5. The blues is based on an African-American vocal tradition that goes back to the days of .....
6. African American Literature is a full year course.
7. The process in which a Black person became the lifetime property of a white businessowner/merchant/farmer.
8. How important is attendance to this course?
9. "Concerning nonviolence, it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks." Who do you think said this?
10. Non religious texts like proverbs, folk tales, and narrative tales
11. Who was the U.S. Poet Laureate in the 1850s?
12. Until it ended in 1860s, the Trans-Atlantic slave trade brought approximately how many slaves to the United States?
13. What branch of the military did Ms. Wilson serve in?
14. Required readings texts that are related to the course but optional to read.
15. ..... was told by his teacher that being a lawyer may not be realistic, because he was African-American.
16. Slave ..... by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Olaudah Equiano, and other writers told the harrowing real-life experiences of slaves' lives.
17. Which speech did we read by Frederick Douglass?
18. In class, we watched a video featuring several different people reading parts of Douglass's "What Is the Slave to the Fourth of July" speech. Who were the speakers?
19. How did the Amistad captives get recaptured?
20. Worksongs are .....
21. What were the religious songs sung by African Americans during slavery?
22. How many units will there be in this course?
23. Who is the main character of Their Eyes Were Watching God?
24. Why does the train conductor tell Cora he cannot take him with her when he drops her in "North Carolina" ?
25. A brief sentence that shares a basic truth about life.
26. Irony means .....
27. Which narrative theme could relate to the following quote, "This wretched situation was again aggravated by the galling of the chains, now become insupportable; and the filth of the necessary tubs, into which the children often fell, and were almost suffocated. The shrieks of the women, and the groans of the dying, rendered the whole a scene of horror ..... "?
28. Wedge-shaped writing from early Iraq region.
29. Ancient texts written on coffins.
30. The setting of the play is the 1950's, in what city?
31. What did slave narratives challenge?
32. The term "antebellum" means .....
33. The Trans-Atlantic slave trade brought over three million slaves to which country?
34. What themes were often present in Spirituals sung by enslaved people?
35. What kind of marches did Martin Luther King Jr. lead?
36. This person's father was a pastor/minister.
37. What are slave narratives?
38. DuBois was born a free man.
39. Which item below is an example of a characteristic of a "badman figure" ?
40. Societies that use verbal communication and gestures to pass downinformation, traditions, values, stories, etc.
41. What does Mama's upkeep of her plant NOT symbolize?
42. In what year were Africans first suggested to be enslaved?
43. From what stock does Mary descend?
44. What is W.E.B DuBois well known book?
45. The sapphire was usually a sassy and domineering woman
46. Why might African American slaves sung spirituals?
47. In what year were the first enslaved Africans brought to the Northern British Colonies?
48. What law was made in 1807?
49. The name of a Spanish ship which landed in New York which had been taken over by slaves was called the .....
50. Songs of praise to the gods in Ancient civilizations
51. What is the name of Cora's mother?
52. Who is the Author of "Just Mercy ''?
53. On what date is the "Thirty Dollar Reward" listed in "Georgia" ?
54. Oldest religious texts on tombs of Kings in Egypt
55. Worksongs often included all of the following, except .....
56. DuBois and Booker had the exact same path
57. The stance that Beneatha takes in the novel is best described as that of a:
58. Pictographic symbolic writing, originating in Egypt.
59. Plessy v. Ferguson ruling
60. A culture that thrives on verbal literature where people are the information.
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