This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > African American Literature > African American Literature – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books African American Literature Quiz 2 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What were the religious songs sung by African Americans during slavery? A) Proverbs. B) Hymns or Spirituals. C) Poems. D) Folk Tales. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hymns or Spirituals. 2. How many units will there be in this course? A) 6. B) 4. C) 9. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 6. 3. Who is the main character of Their Eyes Were Watching God? A) Jainie Crawford. B) Teacake. C) Pheoby Watson. D) Nanny. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jainie Crawford. 4. Why does the train conductor tell Cora he cannot take him with her when he drops her in "North Carolina" ? A) Because the patrollers are out. B) Because he is in maintenance. C) Because he is going back south. D) Because the train is faulty. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Because he is in maintenance. 5. A brief sentence that shares a basic truth about life. A) Proverbs. B) Folk Tales. C) Call and Response. D) Anansi the Spider. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Proverbs. 6. Irony means ..... A) When something is the opposite of typical expectations. B) 10, 000 spoons when all you need is a knife. C) Something strong, as in made of iron. D) Sarcasm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) When something is the opposite of typical expectations. 7. 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 ..... "? A) Self-Preservation. B) Horrors of Slavery. C) Journey to Freedom. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Horrors of Slavery. 8. Wedge-shaped writing from early Iraq region. A) Cuneiform. B) Sarcophagus Texts. C) Hymns. D) Pyramid Texts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cuneiform. 9. Ancient texts written on coffins. A) Cuneiform. B) Sarcophagus Texts. C) Hymns. D) Pyramid Texts. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sarcophagus Texts. 10. The setting of the play is the 1950's, in what city? A) Harlem. B) The Angels. C) Chicago. D) Boston. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chicago. 11. What did slave narratives challenge? A) White society's idea that white people were superior. B) White society's idea that Black people were savage, brutal, inferior. C) White society's attempt to separate slavery from the their spiritual and political ideas. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 12. The term "antebellum" means ..... A) Occurring before the American Civil War. B) Existing after Recnstruction. C) Occurring after the American Civil War. D) Existing after the Civil Rights Movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Occurring before the American Civil War. 13. The Trans-Atlantic slave trade brought over three million slaves to which country? A) Brazil. B) Cuba. C) Jamaica. D) United States. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brazil. 14. What themes were often present in Spirituals sung by enslaved people? A) Death; Hate; Violence. B) Escape; Displacement; Judgment Day. C) Love; Acceptance; Passiveness. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Escape; Displacement; Judgment Day. 15. What kind of marches did Martin Luther King Jr. lead? A) Large. B) Mad. C) Peaceful. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Peaceful. 16. This person's father was a pastor/minister. A) Martin Luther King, Jr. B) Malcolm X. C) Both. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both. 17. What are slave narratives? A) Songs written by formerly enslaved people. B) Autobiographical stories written by formerly enslaved people. C) Articles written by white slave owners. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Autobiographical stories written by formerly enslaved people. 18. DuBois was born a free man. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 19. Which item below is an example of a characteristic of a "badman figure" ? A) Afraid of white people. B) Heroic. C) Didn't mind dying. D) Both Heroic and didn't mind dying. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both Heroic and didn't mind dying. 20. Societies that use verbal communication and gestures to pass downinformation, traditions, values, stories, etc. A) Oral Culture. B) Folk Tales. C) Call and Response. D) Anansi the Spider. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oral Culture. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesRegions QuizzesAfrican American Literature Quiz 1African American Literature Quiz 3African American Literature Quiz 4African American Literature Quiz 5 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books