African American Literature Quiz 3 (20 MCQs)

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1. What does Mama's upkeep of her plant NOT symbolize?

Correct Answer: B) Her business savvy.

2. In what year were Africans first suggested to be enslaved?

Correct Answer: C) 1517.

3. From what stock does Mary descend?

Correct Answer: B) Ashanti.

4. What is W.E.B DuBois well known book?

Correct Answer: C) The Souls of Black Folk.

5. The sapphire was usually a sassy and domineering woman

Correct Answer: A) True.

6. Why might African American slaves sung spirituals?

Correct Answer: E) All of the above.

7. In what year were the first enslaved Africans brought to the Northern British Colonies?

Correct Answer: A) 1619.

8. What law was made in 1807?

Correct Answer: A) No more slaves could be brought INTO America.

9. The name of a Spanish ship which landed in New York which had been taken over by slaves was called the .....

Correct Answer: D) Amistad.

10. Songs of praise to the gods in Ancient civilizations

Correct Answer: C) Hymns.

11. What is the name of Cora's mother?

Correct Answer: A) Mabel.

12. Who is the Author of "Just Mercy ''?

Correct Answer: D) Bryan Stevenson.

13. On what date is the "Thirty Dollar Reward" listed in "Georgia" ?

Correct Answer: C) July 18, 1820.

14. Oldest religious texts on tombs of Kings in Egypt

Correct Answer: A) Pyramid Texts.

15. Worksongs often included all of the following, except .....

Correct Answer: A) Praise of the Christian Faith and God.

16. DuBois and Booker had the exact same path

Correct Answer: B) False.

17. The stance that Beneatha takes in the novel is best described as that of a:

Correct Answer: B) Feminist.

18. Pictographic symbolic writing, originating in Egypt.

Correct Answer: D) Hieroglyphics.

19. Plessy v. Ferguson ruling

Correct Answer: D) Separate But Equal.

20. A culture that thrives on verbal literature where people are the information.

Correct Answer: A) Oral Cultures.