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Category: African-American Literature
The back to Africa movement was primarily about______________?
A. Bringing African culture to the United States.
B. Leaving the African peoples alone.
C. Writers who took African themes for their work.
D. Completing an oppressed people’s quest for freedom, liberty and democracy.
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 to Africa Movement.
D. To raise money for Sickle Cell Anemia research.
In Jean Toomer’s “Her Lips Are Copper Wires,” a kiss is compared to_______________?
A. A waterfall.
B. Electricity.
C. A war.
D. A factory.
In what way is Jane Toomer’s Cane an example of Modernism ?
A. Its fractured, collage effect.
B. Its insistence on plot.
C. Its focus on landscape.
D. Its focus on modern city life.
The term “Civil Disobedience” was coined by which author ?
A. William Gates
B. Henry David Thoreau
C. Booker T. Washington
D. Alain Locke
Although Charles Johnson’s Oxherding Tales is based on his Buddhist beliefs, he meant the novel to be a reworking of an American genre, the slave narrative. In what way is the novel, despite its philosophical underpinnings, an exemplar of the slave narrative ?
A. Its character’s movement from slavery to freedom.
B. Its emphasis on Christian ideals.
C. The novel’s sensationalist scenes of violence.
D. Its didactic (teaching) tone of voice.
In Chapter XV of William Wells Brown’s Clotel, what characteristic of the sentimental novel is evident ?
A. The scene invokes audience sympathy.
B. The heroine has to balance autonomy with self-denial.
C. The heroine conquers her passions.
D. A and B
E. B and C
In Chapter XV of William Wells Brown’s Clotel, why was Clotel made to cut her long hair ?
A. The mistress of the house was afraid her husband would be attracted to Clotel.
B. To keep the lice away.
C. So that the other slaves would get along with her.
D. So she could sell it.
David Walker’s “Appeal in Four Articles” argues that_________________?
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.
The most important tenet of the Black Arts Movements is________________?
A. African American art should exclude women.
B. African American images should inspire African Americans.
C. African American art should subvert the art of Europeans and White Americans.
D. African American literature should replicate educated White language.
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