African American Literature Quiz 2 (10 MCQs)

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1. "The Day Duke Raised" by Quincy Troupe is a jazz poem because:

Correct Answer: A) The poem's rhythmic lines.

2. Who is the author of the novel Passing?

Correct Answer: D) Nella Larsen.

3. Which author relied on complex characters and dialect to overturn American stereotypes about Southern African Americans?

Correct Answer: C) Charles Chesnutt.

4. In what way is Jane Toomer's Cane an example of Modernism?

Correct Answer: A) Its fractured, collage effect.

5. Harriet Jacobs wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl to show:

Correct Answer: D) How females were affected by slavery.

6. What source did David Walker rely on the most for support in "Appeal in Four Articles" ?

Correct Answer: B) The Bible.

7. In Gwendolyn Brooks' poem, "kitchenette building, " what is most important to the building's inhabitants?

Correct Answer: A) Having a bathroom with warm water.

8. Sonia Sanchez's "right on: white america" is protesting:

Correct Answer: D) The fact that America still has a frontier mentality.

9. The mask in Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem, "We Wear the Mask, " represents:

Correct Answer: B) The persona that the characters show the world.

10. In Chapter XV of William Wells Brown's Clotel, Clotel is described as a quadroon. What does this mean?

Correct Answer: A) She is one-quarter Black.