African American Literature Quiz 3 (20 MCQs)

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1. The genre Octavia Butler's "Bloodchild" is:

Correct Answer: B) Science Fiction.

2. In Nella Larsen's novel Passing, why is Clare afraid to have another child?

Correct Answer: D) She is afraid it may have dark skin.

3. The narrator of Langston Hughes's "Weary Blues" is describing:

Correct Answer: D) Blues being played in a Harlem bar.

4. The trickster figure is usually

Correct Answer: A) Amoral (neither good nor evil).

5. Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet?

Correct Answer: B) A performance poet.

6. Brer Rabbit is an example of what kind of character?

Correct Answer: A) Trickster.

7. In Chapter Three of Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery, Washington's primary goal is to:

Correct Answer: A) Get an education.

8. The "tragic mulatto" myth:

Correct Answer: A) Led to novels of passing.

9. In "125th Street and Abomey, " Audre Lorde references images from .....

Correct Answer: A) African mythology.

10. The term "Civil Disobedience" was coined by which author?

Correct Answer: B) Henry David Thoreau.

11. The character of Delia in Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat" was influenced by:

Correct Answer: A) Her relationship with a patron.

12. Who introduced the character of the "tragic mulatto" ?

Correct Answer: B) Lydia Maria Child.

13. What is the subject of Lucille Clifton's "the lost baby poem" ?

Correct Answer: C) Abortion.

14. All of the following are characteristics of the African American tradition of the toast except:

Correct Answer: C) Toasting glorifies women.

15. The importance of Freedom's Journal was:

Correct Answer: B) It was the first African American newspaper.

16. What unforgivable action does Mag Smith take in Chapter One of Our Nig?

Correct Answer: D) She marries a Black man.

17. In Paul Laurence Dunbar's "A Cabin Tale, " which character is a trickster figure?

Correct Answer: A) Weasel.

18. For Booker T. Washington, racial uplift means:

Correct Answer: B) Allowing Whites to help African Americans to reach their potential.

19. Who wrote one of the most famous African American poems that begins with "what happens to a dream deferred" ?

Correct Answer: D) Langston Hughes.

20. Slave narratives were shaped by:

Correct Answer: A) Captivity narratives.