📚English Literature MCQs
English Literature MCQs
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Why was the “drop of blood” rule developed ?
ATo keep the slave offspring of White slave owners from inheriting.
BTo allow mixed-race children to get scholarships meant for African Americans.
CTo make sure mothers of mixed-race children got custody.
DTo keep White slave owner parents of mixed-race offspring from having to pay for their children.
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What was special about Zora Neale Hurston’s home town of Eatonville, Florida ?
AIt was home to the Harlem Renaissance.
BMost of its inhabitants worked for White people.
CIt was primarily African American.
DIt was destroyed after the Civil War.
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Which is not a characteristic of Realism ?
ACharacters are not as important as plot.
BPresentation is objective.
COrdinary language is used.
DEvents are plausible.
314
Etheridge Knight’s “Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane,” what is Hard Rock’s function in the prison ?
ATo help the other inmates escape.
BTo win money by fighting.
CTo do what the other inmates were afraid to do.
DTo keep the Blacks and Whites separated.
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What does the term “passing” mean ?
AThe ability of an African American to live as a White person.
BTo do well on one’s schoolwork.
CTo leave one’s past behind.
DTo gain approval from one’s community.
316
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 ?
ABetrayal by the educational system.
BBetrayal by her sister.
CBetrayal by her community.
DBetrayal by a family member.
317
In what way is Jane Toomer’s Cane an example of Modernism ?
AIts fractured, collage effect.
BIts insistence on plot.
CIts focus on landscape.
DIts focus on modern city life.
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The back to Africa movement was primarily about______________?
ABringing African culture to the United States.
BLeaving the African peoples alone.
CWriters who took African themes for their work.
DCompleting an oppressed people’s quest for freedom, liberty and democracy.
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Tennyson wrote____________?
ADover Beach
BMy last Duchess
CThe Eve of St. Agnes
DThe Lotus Eaters
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Tennyson was_____________?
Aa romantic
Ba Victorian
Ca Pre…Raphaelite
Dnone of these