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Why is the couple in Arna Bontemps’s “A Summer Tragedy” getting dressed up ?
A. To go to a party.
B. To go pay old man Stevenson.
C. To end their lives.
D. To go to church.
Alice Walker’s novels often explore the abuse experienced by African American women. What is the only abuse Celie does not experience The Color Purple ?
A. Betrayal by the educational system.
B. Betrayal by her sister.
C. Betrayal by her community.
D. Betrayal by a family member.
In the poem “When Malindy Sings,” Paul Laurence Dunbar uses irony and caricature to “signify” on white assumptions about African Americans. What does Henry Louis Gate’s term “signify” mean ?
A. Giving words double meaning that appear differently to white and black readers.
B. Fixing words with very specific meanings.
C. Making sure that what is written makes sense.
D. Lying to mislead the reader.
Who introduced the character of the “tragic mulatto” ?
A. William Wells Brown
B. Lydia Maria Child
C. Harriet Jacobs
D. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Why was it important that slave narratives have a title page that claimed either that the narrative was written by the narrator himself (or his words were recorded by someone close to him, preferably white) ?
A. So the author could get paid.
B. In order for people to believe the events in the narratives.
C. So that slave owners could refute the events in the narratives.
D. So that the author could be assured he wouldn’t be recaptured.
In Nella Larsen’s novel Passing, why is Clare afraid to have another child ?
A. She almost died in childbirth with her first child.
B. She doesn’t want to lose her figure.
C. Her husband has threatened to leave her.
D. She is afraid it may have dark skin.
Phillis Wheatley’s poetry is considered_____________?
A. Highly original.
B. Typical of Colonial poetry.
C. Progressive and challenging.
D. Abolitionist in subject.
In Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem, “kitchenette building,” what is most important to the building’s inhabitants ?
A. Having a bathroom with warm water.
B. Following one’s dreams.
C. Getting food on the table.
D. Finding a mate.
Who wrote one of the most famous African American poems that begins with “what happens to a dream deferred” ?
A. Alice Walker
B. Etheridge Knight
C. Martin Luther King, Jr.
D. Langston Hughes
Slave narratives were shaped by_____________?
A. Captivity narratives.
B. Abolitionist newspaper accounts.
C. Folktales.
D. African mythology.
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