📚English Literature MCQs
English Literature MCQs
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In Chapter XV of William Wells Brown’s Clotel, why was Clotel made to cut her long hair ?
AThe mistress of the house was afraid her husband would be attracted to Clotel.
BTo keep the lice away.
CSo that the other slaves would get along with her.
DSo she could sell it.
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Spirituals like “Go Down Moses” were important to African Americans because_______________?
AThey showed that a hero would deliver them from slavery.
BThey gave hope that God would deliver them from slavery.
CThey helped them do their work faster.
DThey were based on African songs.
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Arna Bontemps’s “A Summer Tragedy” attacks the institution of________________?
ASharecropping.
BSlavery.
CSegregation.
DProstitution.
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David Walker’s “Appeal in Four Articles” argues that_________________?
AThe races should not intermarry.
BChristians the only ones not to blame for the existence of slavery.
CBlacks have the duty to resist slavery.
DBlacks should return to Africa.
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Slave owners resisted abolition for what reason ?
ASlaveholders objected to losing leisure time.
BSlaves outnumbered non-slaves and might rebel.
CE. A and
DB and
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In Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem, “we real cool,” the Golden Shovel is_______________?
AThe name of a restaurant the pool players cannot enter.
BA metaphor for colossal lies they have been buried with.
CA metaphor for the pool players who are trying to dig out of their neighborhood.
DThe name of a pool hall.
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The importance of Lucy Terry’s “Bars Flight” is________________?
AThe poem’s form of rhymed tetrameter couplets.
BThe poem shows her future work as a advocate of civil rights.
CThe poem is filled with Christian symbolism.
DThe fact that the poem is the most accurate account of the 1742 Indian-White engagement in Deerfield, Massachusetts.
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What is the subject of Lucille Clifton’s “the lost baby poem” ?
AA child dying of SIDS.
BThe stillborn death of a child.
CAbortion.
DA murdered child.
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Which of the following is considered the first great work in world literature ___________?
📚English LiteratureBy: Rashid Mehmood
ADivine Comedy
BEpic of Gilgamesh
CBrother Karamazov
DAnna Karenina
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Who is the Author of the Book “As u Like it”?
📚English LiteratureBy: SAJID HUSSAIN
AColeridge
BKarl Marx
CThomas Hardy
DWilliam Shakespear