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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.
In Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem, “we real cool,” the Golden Shovel is_______________?
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.
Arna Bontemps’s “A Summer Tragedy” attacks the institution of________________?
A. Sharecropping.
B. Slavery.
C. Segregation.
D. Prostitution.
In Chapter XV of William Wells Brown’s Clotel, Clotel is described as a quadroon. What does this mean ?
A. She is one-quarter Black.
B. She is one-eighth Black.
C. She is White.
D. She cannot be a slave.
Some critics argue that the use of dialect by such authors as Paul Laurence Dunbar and Charles Chesnutt did all of the following except_______________?
A. Strengthened the African American’s place in the world of literature
B. Perpetuated stereotypes
C. Allowed African American authors to sell their works more widely to white audiences
D. Showed that African Americans couldn’t speak properly.
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