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Category: African-American Literature
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
The theme of Phillis Wheatley’s “On Being Brought from Africa to America” is_______________?
A. Slaves are capable of becoming good Christians.
B. Slaves should rebel against the Christian religion.
C. Slaves are the children of Cain.
D. Christians should free their slaves.
Which characteristic of the slave narrative did Frederick Douglass include in the first chapter of his Narrative ?
A. Narration of a deserved punishment.
B. Depictions of a beautiful rural environment.
C. Descriptions of the kinds of food and clothing slaves were given.
D. The author’s father is often a white man.
What does the term “passing” mean ?
A. The ability of an African American to live as a White person.
B. To do well on one’s schoolwork.
C. To leave one’s past behind.
D. To gain approval from one’s community.
What is the character of Delia most of afraid of in Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat” ?
A. Rabid dogs.
B. Her husband.
C. Snakes.
D. Bertha.
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