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 ?

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Which of the following statements about slavery is true ?

A. Most slave children lived in two family homes. B. Slave owners did not allow their slaves to live as married couples. C. Slaves were given limited civil rights. D. Most slaves were not Christian....

Etheridge Knight’s “Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane,” what is Hard Rock’s function in the prison ?

A. To help the other inmates escape. B. To win money by fighting. C. To do what the other inmates were afraid to do. D. To keep the Blacks and Whites separated....

The importance of Lucy Terry’s “Bars Flight” is________________?

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....

What was the Great Migration ?

A. A period of time when African Americans moved North in large numbers. B. When African Americans settled Liberia. C. When slaves traveled the Underground Railroad. D. When African Americans migrated to the South from the North....

The theme of Phillis Wheatley’s “On Being Brought from Africa to America” is_______________?

A. Slaves are capable of becoming good Christians. B. Slaves should rebel against the Christian religion. C. Slaves are the children of Cain. D. Christians should free their slaves....