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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.
Why was the “drop of blood” rule developed ?
A. To keep the slave offspring of White slave owners from inheriting.
B. To allow mixed-race children to get scholarships meant for African Americans.
C. To make sure mothers of mixed-race children got custody.
D. To keep White slave owner parents of mixed-race offspring from having to pay for their children.
The fact that Claude McKay visited Russia in 1922 exemplifies the following theme of Modernism_____________?
A. Collectivism versus the authority of the individual.
B. The wearing away of traditional class structures.
C. The impact of WWI and the 1918 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.
D. The disassociated, anomic self.
In Charles Chesnutt’s “The Goophered Grape Vine,” why does Uncle Julius tell the Northern visitors the story of the spell put on the grapes ?
A. To describe the horrors of life on the Post-bellum plantation.
B. To explain his religious views.
C. To amuse the narrator’s sickly wife.
D. So they won’t interrupt his income from the neglected grape harvest.
All of the following are characteristics of the African American tradition of the toast except_____________?
A. Toasting is oral
B. Toasting is a male event
C. Toasting glorifies women
D. Toasting provides cultural identification
In Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “When Malindy Sings,” what kind of music is Malindy singing ?
A. Cakewalk tunes.
B. Gospel.
C. Jazz.
D. Blues.
Slavery in the United States was officially abolished in ______________?
A. 1804
B. 1865
C. 1848
D. 1807
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