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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.
The mask in Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem, “We Wear the Mask,” represents_____________?
A. The persona that the characters show the world.
B. The carved masks of African gods.
C. Characters from the Bible.
D. Who the narrator wishes to be.
What was special about Zora Neale Hurston’s home town of Eatonville, Florida ?
A. It was home to the Harlem Renaissance.
B. Most of its inhabitants worked for White people.
C. It was primarily African American.
D. It was destroyed after the Civil War.
In “125th Street and Abomey,” Audre Lorde references images from ________________?
A. African mythology.
B. African American folktale.
C. Greek mythology.
D. Contemporary female artists.
The character of Delia in Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat” was influenced by______________?
A. Her relationship with a patron.
B. Her mother.
C. Her best friend.
D. Her job as a waitress.
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. Washington
D. Frederick Douglass
Race relations in the North are attacked in_______________?
A. Harriet Jacob’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
B. Harriet Wilson’s Our Nig.
C. William Wells Brown’s Clotel.
D. Toni Morrison’s Beloved.
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