The subject of Soujourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman” is_______________? A. Women’s rights. B. Negro rights. C. The right to keep one’s children.D. A and B. E. The rights of farm hands.
In Nikki Giovanni’s “The American Vision of Lincoln,” the poet argues that the Capitol needs a statue of _____________next to the one of Abraham Lincoln? A. W.E.B. DuBois B. Amiri Baraka C. Booker T. WashingtonD. Frederick Douglass
Why was it important that slave narratives have a title page that claimed either that the narrative was written by the narrator himself (or his words were recorded by someone close to him, preferably white) ? A. So the author…
Which author relied on complex characters and dialect to overturn American stereotypes about Southern African Americans ? A. William Wells Brown B. Richard WrightC. Charles Chesnutt D. Booker T. Washington
Harriet Jacob’s slave narrative Incidents in the Life differs from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s abolitionist novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin in what way ? A. Stowe’s novel is sentimental. B. Stowe describes the treatment of slaves. C. Stowe describes the escape of…
Which characteristic of the slave narrative did Frederick Douglass include in the first chapter of his Narrative ? A. Narration of a deserved punishment. B. Depictions of a beautiful rural environment. C. Descriptions of the kinds of food and clothing…
Frederick Douglass argued that slaves sang spirituals for all of the following reasons except______________? A. To impress the horrors of slavery on listeners B. To ease their pain C. To pray for deliveranceD. To show that they were content in…
In the poem “When Malindy Sings,” Paul Laurence Dunbar uses irony and caricature to “signify” on white assumptions about African Americans. What does Henry Louis Gate’s term “signify” mean ? A. Giving words double meaning that appear differently to white…
According to Larry Neal, the primary goal of the Black Arts Movement is_______________? A. To speak to the spiritual and cultural needs of African Americans. B. To raise awareness of violence in African American youth. C. To support the Back…
Native Son was written by___________________? A. Jean Toomer.B. Richard Wright. C. Ralph Ellison. D. James Baldwin.