This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > African American Literature > African American Literature – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books African American Literature Quiz 4 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which on of these books was adapted into a movie staring Michael B. Jordan? A) The Amen Corner. B) Assata. C) Their Eyes Were Watching God. D) Just Mercy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Just Mercy. 2. With the outbreak of the civil war, African Americans wanted to A) Join the war. B) Flee the country. C) Work as entertainers for the army. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Join the war. 3. Plessy v. Ferguson created a legal justification for A) Integration of Schools. B) Child Labor Laws. C) Jim Crow Laws. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jim Crow Laws. 4. Being prepared for class means ..... A) Having assigned reading and or discussion questions completed (prior to entry). B) Having a charged and working laptop everyday all the time. C) Having a writing utensil, and paper. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 5. What was the point of singing Spirituals for Black enslaved people? A) Singing offered a mental escape from work and life on the plantation. B) Singing shielded them against the values and violence from their owners. C) Singing offered visions of justice and safety in Heaven. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 6. What are spirituals? A) Are sacred folk music created and sung by enslaved African Americans, often in call-and-response style, and shared by oral tradition. B) Slave songs sung in church and plantations where African Americans were enslaved. C) Christian Songs African Americans used to create their own version. D) Are sacred folk music. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Are sacred folk music created and sung by enslaved African Americans, often in call-and-response style, and shared by oral tradition. 7. Religious song praising the "sun god" A) Pyramid Texts. B) Hymn to the Aton. C) Cuneiform. D) Sarcophagus Texts. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hymn to the Aton. 8. People who copied texts into books; some of the most powerful after Pharaoh A) Oral Cultures. B) Folk Tales. C) Call and Response. D) Scribes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Scribes. 9. In 1909, who helped found the NAACP? A) Booker T Washington. B) Alexander Graham Bell. C) WEB DuBois. D) Thomas Edison. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) WEB DuBois. 10. A supplemental reading is a text that you are required to read to pass the course. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 11. Which theme refers to the idea of people being forced to leave their homes? A) Journey to Freedom. B) Self-Preservation. C) Horrors of Slavery. D) Displacement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Displacement. 12. What were the conditions like on the slave ship? A) Cold, wet, dirty and disgusting. B) Warm, comfy, tight, and luxurious. C) Like any other ship. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cold, wet, dirty and disgusting. 13. What is a "badman figure" ? A) Someone who the enslaved saw as dangerous and violent. B) Someone who the white plantations owners used to keep the enslaved in line. C) A character in worksongs that were heroes to the enslaved people. D) He is African-American. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A character in worksongs that were heroes to the enslaved people. 14. Writings of prayers, incantations, and spells A) Cuneiform. B) Sarcophagus Texts. C) Hymns. D) Pyramid Texts. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pyramid Texts. 15. Metaphor means ..... A) A direct comparison between two things that is also literally applicable B e. B) A direct comparison between two things that is NOT literally applicabl. C) A comparison between two things that uses the word "like" or "as". D) A comparison between two stories. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A direct comparison between two things that is NOT literally applicabl. 16. Which item is an element of a Slave Narrative? A) Written by a slave trader. B) A slave's story written by someone else. C) Details the horrors of being the property of another human being. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Details the horrors of being the property of another human being. 17. What prominent African-American academic did DuBois criticize? A) Martin Lither King, JR. B) Booker T. Washington. C) Fredrick Douglass. D) Alexander Cromwell. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Booker T. Washington. 18. A text that involves ordinary people or animals that act like people to teach a lesson. A) Proverbs. B) Folk Tales. C) Call and Response. D) Spirituals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Folk Tales. 19. What did Black enslaved people call the process of "call and response" ? A) Call and response. B) Singing. C) Lining. D) Rap. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lining. 20. Approximately how many people were brought from Africa to North and South Americaduring the Slave Trade? A) 10, 000. B) 10 Million. C) 100, 000. D) 50, 000. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 10 Million. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesRegions QuizzesAfrican American Literature Quiz 1African American Literature Quiz 2African American Literature Quiz 3African American Literature Quiz 5 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books