1 - According to Henry Louis Gates, Jr., reconstructing black people into the "New Negro" has been a matter of_______________?
2 - According to Larry Neal, the primary goal of the Black Arts Movement is_______________?
3 - African American dialects grew out of_______________?
4 - 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 ?
5 - Alice Walker's story, "Everyday Use," includes which "Womanist" concern ?
6 - All of the following are characteristics of the African American tradition of the toast except_____________?
7 - Although Charles Johnson's Oxherding Tales is based on his Buddhist beliefs, he meant the novel to be a reworking of an American genre, the slave narrative. In what way is the novel, despite its philosophical underpinnings, an exemplar of the slave narrative ?
8 - Although different in tone, Soujourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman" and David Walker's "Appeal in Four Articles" are similar in what way ?
9 - Arna Bontemps's "A Summer Tragedy" attacks the institution of________________?
10 - Booker T. Washington's message in Up from Slavery is_______________?
11 - Brer Rabbit is an example of what kind of character ?
12 - Charles W. Chesnutt used vernacular speech to________________?
13 - David Walker's "Appeal in Four Articles" argues that_________________?
14 - During the early 20th century, a black person's purpose in passing might have been_________________?
15 - Etheridge Knight's "Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane," what is Hard Rock's function in the prison ?
16 - For Booker T. Washington, racial uplift means_______________?
17 - Frederick Douglass argued that slaves sang spirituals for all of the following reasons except______________?
18 - Harriet Jacob's slave narrative Incidents in the Life differs from Harriet Beecher Stowe's abolitionist novel Uncle Tom's Cabin in what way ?
19 - Harriet Jacobs wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl to show______________?
20 - In "125th Street and Abomey," Audre Lorde references images from ________________?
21 - In Chapter 11 of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, how does Malcolm X survive prison ?
22 - In Chapter Three of Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery, Washington's primary goal is to______________?
23 - In Chapter XV of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, where did Linda hide ?
24 - In Chapter XV of William Wells Brown's Clotel, Clotel is described as a quadroon. What does this mean ?
25 - In Chapter XV of William Wells Brown's Clotel, what characteristic of the sentimental novel is evident ?
26 - In Chapter XV of William Wells Brown's Clotel, why was Clotel made to cut her long hair ?
27 - 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 ?
28 - In Gwendolyn Brooks' poem, "kitchenette building," what is most important to the building's inhabitants ?
29 - In Gwendolyn Brooks' poem, "we real cool," the Golden Shovel is_______________?
30 - In Jean Toomer's "Her Lips Are Copper Wires," a kiss is compared to_______________?
31 - In Lucille Clifton's "wishes for son," the narrator lists what wishes her sons ?
32 - In Nella Larsen's novel Passing, why is Clare afraid to have another child ?
33 - In Nikki Giovanni's "The American Vision of Lincoln," the poet argues that the Capitol needs a statue of _____________next to the one of Abraham Lincoln?
34 - In Octavia Butler's "Bloodchild," The Tlick keep the humans happy by_______________?
35 - In Paul Laurence Dunbar's "When Malindy Sings," what kind of music is Malindy singing ?
36 - In Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, living underground is symbolic of_____________?
37 - 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 ?
38 - In the United States, Reconstruction_______________?
39 - In what way is Jane Toomer's Cane an example of Modernism ?
40 - In writing Beloved, Toni Morrison drew on what for inspiration ?
41 - Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail," King advocates_______________?
42 - Native Son was written by___________________?
43 - Neo-Slave narratives are contemporary novels written about slavery. Toni Morrison's Beloved is about the ghost of a baby the character Sethe murdered to keep her from being recaptured by their master. The opening chapter of the novel represents the neo-slave narrative by its________________?
44 - One of the functions of protest poetry was to________________?
45 - Phillis Wheatley's poetry is considered_____________?
46 - Race relations in the North are attacked in_______________?
47 - Richard Wright said he created the character of Bigger in Native Son because______________?
48 - Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?
49 - Slave narratives were shaped by_____________?
50 - Slavery in the United States was officially abolished in ______________?
51 - Some critics argue that the use of dialect by such authors as Paul Laurence Dunbar and Charles Chesnutt did all of the following except_______________?
52 - Sonia Sanchez's "right on: white america" is protesting________________?
53 - Spirituals like "Go Down Moses" were important to African Americans because_______________?
54 - The "tragic mulatto" myth_________________?
55 - The back to Africa movement was primarily about______________?
56 - The characteristic of Naturalism that is most present in the first chapter of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man is_____________?
57 - The classification of vowels into close vowels and open vowels is based on ________________?
58 - The classification of vowels into half__close vowels and half__open vowels is based on ________________?
59 - The Day Duke Raised by Quincy Troupe is a jazz poem because______________?
60 - The fact that Claude McKay visited Russia in 1922 exemplifies the following theme of Modernism_____________?
61 - The genre Octavia Butler's "Bloodchild" is______________?
62 - The importance of Freedom's Journal was____________?
63 - The importance of Lucy Terry's "Bars Flight" is________________?
64 - The mask in Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem, "We Wear the Mask," represents_____________?
65 - The most important tenet of the Black Arts Movements is________________?
66 - The narrator of Langston Hughes's "Weary Blues" is describing__________________?
67 - The subject of Soujourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman" is_______________?
68 - The supportive network of female slaves led to_______________?
69 - The term "Civil Disobedience" was coined by which author ?
70 - The theme of Phillis Wheatley's "On Being Brought from Africa to America" is_______________?
71 - Uncle Julius is a character developed by______________?
72 - Until recent years it was thought that Harriet Jacob's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was____________?
73 - What does the term "passing" mean ?
74 - What is the character of Delia most of afraid of in Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat" ?
75 - What is the subject of Lucille Clifton's "the lost baby poem" ?
76 - What source did David Walker rely on the most for support in "Appeal in Four Articles" ?
77 - What unforgivable action does Mag Smith take in Chapter One of Our Nig ?
78 - What was special about Zora Neale Hurston's home town of Eatonville, Florida ?
79 - What was the Great Migration ?
80 - Which among the following are bilabial plosive sounds in English?
81 - Which among the following pairs are Velar plosives ?
82 - Which author relied on complex characters and dialect to overturn American stereotypes about Southern African Americans ?
83 - Which characteristic of the slave narrative did Frederick Douglass include in the first chapter of his Narrative ?
84 - Which is not a characteristic of Realism ?
85 - Which of the following authors was not of mixed race heritage ?
86 - Which of the following statements about slavery is true ?
87 - Who introduced the character of the "tragic mulatto" ?
88 - Who is the author of the novel Passing ?
89 - Who wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl ?
90 - Who wrote one of the most famous African American poems that begins with "what happens to a dream deferred" ?
91 - Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, an indictment of slavery ?
92 - Why did Marcus Garvey spearhead the "Back to Africa Movement" ?
93 - Why does Dee want the quilt in Alice Walker's "Everyday Use" ?
94 - Why is the couple in Arna Bontemps's "A Summer Tragedy" getting dressed up ?
95 - 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) ?
96 - Why was the "drop of blood" rule developed ?
97 - Yusef Komunyakaa's "Blue Dementia" is an example of what kind of poetry ?
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