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Category: African-American Literature
Neo-Slave narratives are contemporary novels written about slavery. Toni Morrison’s Beloved is about the ghost of a baby the character Sethe murdered to keep her from being recaptured by their master. The opening chapter of the novel represents the neo-slave narrative by its________________?
A. Discussion of race relations in the North and South.
B. Condemnation of the plantation myth.
C. Examination of the psychological damage of slavery.
D. Insistence on desegregation.
Why did Marcus Garvey spearhead the “Back to Africa Movement” ?
A. Because in was cheaper to live in Africa.
B. Because he did not feel African Americans would ever achieve equality in America.
C. He was asked by African countries to bring African Americans to Africa.
D. He had to leave the country.
For Booker T. Washington, racial uplift means_______________?
A. Rejecting all White assistance.
B. Allowing Whites to help African
Americans to reach their potential.
C. Calling for violent uprisings.
D. Separating Blacks by income level
The narrator of Langston Hughes’s “Weary Blues” is describing__________________?
A. Negro spirituals being sung in the cotton fields.
B. The call and response of an African American church congregation.
C. African American toasting on a city street corner.
D. Blues being played in a Harlem bar.
The characteristic of Naturalism that is most present in the first chapter of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man is_____________?
A. The theme of man against nature.
B. The theme of man against man.
C. The theme of heredity.
D. Nature as an invisible force.
In the United States, Reconstruction_______________?
A. Is the time period that followed the Civil War.
B. Describes the rebuilding after World War I.
C. Refers to the Civil Rights movement.
D. Took place only in the North.
Who is the author of the novel Passing ?
A. William Wells Brown
B. Nella Larsen.
C. Charles Chesnutt
D. James Weldon Johnson
What source did David Walker rely on the most for support in “Appeal in Four Articles” ?
A. The Bible.
B. Greek history.
C. Slave narratives.
D. Abolitionist newspapers.
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, an indictment of slavery ?
A. Harriet Beecher Stowe
B. Richard Wright
C. Frederick Douglass
D. Phillis Wheatley
In Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, living underground is symbolic of_____________?
A. The narrator’s attempt to stay hidden.
B. The narrator’s desire to be safe.
C. The narrator’s invisibility to society.
D. The narrator’s attempt to stay out of prison.
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