A. cropg.
B. Slavery.
C. Segregation.
D. Prostitution.
Arna Bontemps’s “A Summer Tragedy” attacks the institution of________________? Read More »
African-American Literature, English Literature Mcqs A. The races should not intermarry.
B. Christians the only ones not to blame for the existence of slavery.
C. Blacks have the duty to resist slavery.
D. Blacks should return to Africa.
David Walker’s “Appeal in Four Articles” argues that_________________? Read More »
African-American Literature, English Literature Mcqs A. Slaveholders objected to losing leisure time.
B. Slaves outnumbered non-slaves and might rebel.
C. Slaveholders felt economic security rested on the system of slavery.
D. B and C.
E. A and C.
Slave owners resisted abolition for what reason ? Read More »
African-American Literature, English Literature Mcqs A. The name of a restaurant the pool players cannot enter.
B. A metaphor for colossal lies they have been buried with.
C. A metaphor for the pool players who are trying to dig out of their neighborhood.
D. The name of a pool hall.
In Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem, “we real cool,” the Golden Shovel is_______________? Read More »
African-American Literature, English Literature Mcqs A. The poem’s form of rhymed tetrameter couplets.
B. The poem shows her future work as a advocate of civil rights.
C. The poem is filled with Christian symbolism.
D. The fact that the poem is the most accurate account of the 1742 Indian-White engagement in Deerfield, Massachusetts.
The importance of Lucy Terry’s “Bars Flight” is________________? Read More »
African-American Literature, English Literature Mcqs A. A child dying of SIDS.
B. The stillborn death of a child.
C. Abortion.
D. A murdered child.
What is the subject of Lucille Clifton’s “the lost baby poem” ? Read More »
African-American Literature, English Literature Mcqs A. Breaking the law.
B. Using violence when necessary.
C. Waiting for times to get better.
D. Disobeying unjust laws.
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” King advocates_______________? Read More »
African-American Literature, English Literature Mcqs A. To describe the horrors of life on the Post-bellum plantation.
B. To explain his religious views.
C. To amuse the narrator’s sickly wife.
D. So they won’t interrupt his income from the neglected grape harvest.
A. Harriet Beecher Stowe
B. Joel Chandler Harris
C. Richard Wright
D. Charles Chesnutt
Uncle Julius is a character developed by______________? Read More »
African-American Literature, English Literature Mcqs A. It was the first African American novel.
B. It was the first African American newspaper.
C. It was published by Frederick Douglass.
D. It argued for a separate African American community in America.
The importance of Freedom’s Journal was____________? Read More »
African-American Literature, English Literature Mcqs