📚English Literature MCQs
English Literature MCQs
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In Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild,” The Tlick keep the humans happy by_______________?
ASupplying them with narcotic eggs.
BLetting them choose their own mates.
CFreeing the males after they are hosts.
DPaying them very well.
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In Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem, “kitchenette building,” what is most important to the building’s inhabitants ?
AHaving a bathroom with warm water.
BFollowing one’s dreams.
CGetting food on the table.
DFinding a mate.
303
The narrator of Langston Hughes’s “Weary Blues” is describing__________________?
ANegro spirituals being sung in the cotton fields.
BThe call and response of an African American church congregation.
CAfrican American toasting on a city street corner.
DBlues being played in a Harlem bar.
304
What unforgivable action does Mag Smith take in Chapter One of Our Nig ?
AShe tries to pass as White.
BShe washes clothes for White women.
CShe lets a man help her out.
DShe marries a Black man.
305
According to Henry Louis Gates, Jr., reconstructing black people into the “New Negro” has been a matter of_______________?
ARedefining black people in terms of a presence, not an absence.
BWorking against the existing racist stereotypes.
CA struggle ongoing since 1619.
DAll of the above
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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________________?
ADiscussion of race relations in the North and South.
BCondemnation of the plantation myth.
CExamination of the psychological damage of slavery.
DInsistence on desegregation.
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Charles W. Chesnutt used vernacular speech to________________?
AExplain how African Americans could not learn standard English
BMake his written inaccessible to white audiences
CTo encourage feelings of pride in African American readers
DChallenge American stereotypes about race
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Booker T. Washington’s message in Up from Slavery is_______________?
AWhites should pay reparations to former slaves.
BAfrican Americans should acculturate to mainstream White culture.
CWhite institutions should reform to meet African American needs.
DAfrican Americans will have to help themselves by becoming educated.
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The genre Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild” is______________?
AMystery.
BScience Fiction.
CHorror.
DTragedy.
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In Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, living underground is symbolic of_____________?
AThe narrator’s attempt to stay hidden.
BThe narrator’s desire to be safe.
CThe narrator’s invisibility to society.
DThe narrator’s attempt to stay out of prison.