📚English Literature MCQs
English Literature MCQs
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Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” King advocates_______________?
ABreaking the law.
BUsing violence when necessary.
CWaiting for times to get better.
DDisobeying unjust laws.
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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 ?
ATo describe the horrors of life on the Post-bellum plantation.
BTo explain his religious views.
CTo amuse the narrator’s sickly wife.
DSo they won’t interrupt his income from the neglected grape harvest.
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Uncle Julius is a character developed by______________?
AHarriet Beecher Stowe
BJoel Chandler Harris
CRichard Wright
DCharles Chesnutt
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The importance of Freedom’s Journal was____________?
AIt was the first African American novel.
BIt was the first African American newspaper.
CIt was published by Frederick Douglass.
DIt argued for a separate African American community in America.
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All of the following are characteristics of the African American tradition of the toast except_____________?
AToasting is oral
BToasting is a male event
CToasting glorifies women
DToasting provides cultural identification
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In Chapter 11 of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, how does Malcolm X survive prison ?
AGetting an education.
BFighting.
CMaking friends with the guards.
DContacting famous authors.
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Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?
AA Modernist poet
BA performance poet
CA classical poet
DA traditional poet
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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 ?
AIts character’s movement from slavery to freedom.
BIts emphasis on Christian ideals.
CThe novel’s sensationalist scenes of violence.
DIts didactic (teaching) tone of voice.
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“The Day Duke Raised” by Quincy Troupe is a jazz poem because______________?
AThe poem’s rhythmic lines.
BThe references to jazz songs and musicians.
CThe poem can be set to music.
DThere is repetition.
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In Chapter XV of William Wells Brown’s Clotel, what characteristic of the sentimental novel is evident ?
AThe scene invokes audience sympathy.
BThe heroine has to balance autonomy with self-denial.
CThe heroine conquers her passions.
DA and B E. B and C