African American Literature Quiz 2 (20 MCQs)

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1. Uncle Julius is a character developed by:

Correct Answer: D) Charles Chesnutt.

2. In Paul Laurence Dunbar's "When Malindy Sings, " what kind of music is Malindy singing?

Correct Answer: B) Gospel.

3. Until recent years it was thought that Harriet Jacob's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was:

Correct Answer: C) Fiction written by Lydia Maria Child.

4. What was special about Zora Neale Hurston's home town of Eatonville, Florida?

Correct Answer: C) It was primarily African American.

5. One of the functions of protest poetry was to:

Correct Answer: B) Encourage societies strive for equality for all.

6. Which is not a characteristic of Realism?

Correct Answer: A) Characters are not as important as plot.

7. Phillis Wheatley's poetry is considered:

Correct Answer: B) Typical of Colonial poetry.

8. Why is the couple in Arna Bontemps's "A Summer Tragedy" getting dressed up?

Correct Answer: C) To end their lives.

9. Who wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl?

Correct Answer: D) Harriet Jacobs.

10. In Chapter XV of William Wells Brown's Clotel, why was Clotel made to cut her long hair?

Correct Answer: A) The mistress of the house was afraid her husband would be attracted to Clotel.

11. African American dialects grew out of:

Correct Answer: B) The attempts of African slaves to communicate with each other.

12. Why does Dee want the quilt in Alice Walker's "Everyday Use" ?

Correct Answer: C) She wants to display it for her friends to see.

13. Charles W. Chesnutt used vernacular speech to:

Correct Answer: D) Challenge American stereotypes about race.

14. In writing Beloved, Toni Morrison drew on what for inspiration?

Correct Answer: D) Slave narratives.

15. Arna Bontemps's "A Summer Tragedy" attacks the institution of:

Correct Answer: A) Sharecropping.

16. In Jean Toomer's "Her Lips Are Copper Wires, " a kiss is compared to:

Correct Answer: B) Electricity.

17. Frederick Douglass argued that slaves sang spirituals for all of the following reasons except:

Correct Answer: D) To show that they were content in their work.

18. W.E.B. Du Bois accuses Booker T. Washington of being:

Correct Answer: C) An accomodationist.

19. In Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, living underground is symbolic of:

Correct Answer: C) The narrator's invisibility to society.

20. The characteristic of Naturalism that is most present in the first chapter of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man is:

Correct Answer: B) The theme of man against man.