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Category: African-American Literature
In Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “A Cabin Tale,” which character is a trickster figure?
A. Weasel.
B. Bear.
C. The farmer.
D. The young boy.
The subject of Soujourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman” is_______________?
A. Women’s rights.
B. Negro rights.
C. The right to keep one’s children.
D. The rights of farm hands.
E. A and B.
Uncle Julius is a character developed by______________?
A. Harriet Beecher Stowe
B. Joel Chandler Harris
C. Richard Wright
D. Charles Chesnutt
What is the subject of Lucille Clifton’s “the lost baby poem” ?
A. A child dying of SIDS.
B. The stillborn death of a child.
C. Abortion.
D. A murdered child.
Until recent years it was thought that Harriet Jacob’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was____________?
A. Based on a New England captivity narrative.
B. An anonymous narrative.
C. Fiction written by Lydia Maria Child.
D. Written by Jacob’s son.
The importance of Lucy Terry’s “Bars Flight” is________________?
A. The poem’s form of rhymed tetrameter couplets.
B. The poem shows her future work as a advocate of civil rights.
C. The poem is filled with Christian symbolism.
D. The fact that the poem is the most accurate account of the 1742 Indian-White engagement in Deerfield, Massachusetts.
Frederick Douglass argued that slaves sang spirituals for all of the following reasons except______________?
A. To impress the horrors of slavery on listeners
B. To ease their pain
C. To pray for deliverance
D. To show that they were content in their work
Why does Dee want the quilt in Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” ?
A. She is proud of her heritage.
B. She doesn’t want Maggie to have it.
C. She wants to display it for her friends to see.
D. She loves the beauty of it.
Which of the following authors was not of mixed race heritage ?
A. Jean Toomer
B. Charles Chesnutt
C. Booker T. Washington
D. Frederick Douglass
Who wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl ?
A. Lucy Terry
B. William Wells Brown
C. Harriet Wilson
D. Harriet Jacobs
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