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1) 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
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2) In writing Beloved, Toni Morrison drew on what for inspiration ? a. Her own memories of slavery. b. Stories her grandmother told her. c. The television series Roots. d. Slave narratives.
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3) Slave narratives were shaped by_____________? a. Captivity narratives. b. Abolitionist newspaper accounts. c. Folktales. d. African mythology.
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4) Brer Rabbit is an example of what kind of character ? a. Trickster b. Victim c. Representation of the slave master d. “Uncle Tom” character who feels slavery is best for the African American
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5) In Jean Toomer’s “Her Lips Are Copper Wires,” a kiss is compared to_______________? a. A waterfall. b. Electricity. c. A war. d. A factory.
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6) 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.
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7) In “125th Street and Abomey,” Audre Lorde references images from ________________? a. African mythology. b. African American folktale. c. Greek mythology. d. Contemporary female artists.
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8) What source did David Walker rely on the most for support in “Appeal in Four Articles” ? a. The Bible. b. Greek history. c. Slave narratives. d. Abolitionist newspapers.
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9) 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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10) Spirituals like “Go Down Moses” were important to African Americans because_______________? a. They showed that a hero would deliver them from slavery. b. They gave hope that God would deliver them from slavery. c. They helped them do their work faster. d. They were based on African songs.
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11) Arna Bontemps’s “A Summer Tragedy” attacks the institution of________________? a. Sharecropping. b. Slavery. c. Segregation. d. Prostitution.
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12) David Walker’s “Appeal in Four Articles” argues that_________________? a. The races should not intermarry. b. Christians the only ones not to blame for the existence of slavery. c. Blacks have the duty to resist slavery. d. Blacks should return to Africa.
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13) Slave owners resisted abolition for what reason ? a. Slaveholders objected to losing leisure time. b. Slaves outnumbered non-slaves and might rebel. c. Slaveholders felt economic security rested on the system of slavery. d. B and C. e. A and C.
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14) In Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem, “we real cool,” the Golden Shovel is_______________? a. The name of a restaurant the pool players cannot enter. b. A metaphor for colossal lies they have been buried with. c. A metaphor for the pool players who are trying to dig out of their neighborhood. d. The name of a pool hall.
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15) 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.
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16) 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.
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17) Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” King advocates_______________? a. Breaking the law. b. Using violence when necessary. c. Waiting for times to get better. d. Disobeying unjust laws.
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18) 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 ? a. To describe the horrors of life on the Post-bellum plantation. b. To explain his religious views. c. To amuse the narrator’s sickly wife. d. So they won’t interrupt his income from the neglected grape harvest.
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19) Uncle Julius is a character developed by______________? a. Harriet Beecher Stowe b. Joel Chandler Harris c. Richard Wright d. Charles Chesnutt
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20) The importance of Freedom’s Journal was____________? a. It was the first African American novel. b. It was the first African American newspaper. c. It was published by Frederick Douglass. d. It argued for a separate African American community in America.
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