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Category: African-American Literature
In Chapter Three of Booker T. Washington’s Up from Slavery, Washington’s primary goal is to______________?
A. Get an education.
B. Get a job.
C. To be clean.
D. To be a teacher
The genre Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild” is______________?
A. Mystery.
B. Science Fiction.
C. Horror.
D. Tragedy.
W.E.B. Du Bois accuses Booker T. Washington of being______________?
A. A Christian.
B. A radical.
C. An accomodationist.
D. A coward.
Yusef Komunyakaa’s “Blue Dementia” is an example of what kind of poetry ?
A. Protest poetry
B. Romantic poetry
C. Lyric poetry
D. Jazz poetry
The trickster figure is usually_______________?
A. Amoral (neither good nor evil)
B. Christian
C. Evil
D. None of these
Booker T. Washington’s message in Up from Slavery is_______________?
A. Whites should pay reparations to former slaves.
B. African Americans should acculturate to mainstream White culture.
C. White institutions should reform to meet African American needs.
D. African Americans will have to help themselves by becoming educated.
Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?
A. A Modernist poet
B. A performance poet
C. A classical poet
D. A traditional poet
Native Son was written by___________________?
A. Jean Toomer.
B. Richard Wright.
C. Ralph Ellison.
D. James Baldwin.
African American dialects grew out of_______________?
A. The 1960s protest movements
B. The attempts of African slaves to communicate with each other
C. Slave owners teaching slaves Elizabethan English
D. Slaves’ attempts to keep their conversations secret
In Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild,” The Tlick keep the humans happy by_______________?
A. Supplying them with narcotic eggs.
B. Letting them choose their own mates.
C. Freeing the males after they are hosts.
D. Paying them very well.
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