📚English Literature MCQs
English Literature MCQs
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One of the functions of protest poetry was to________________?
AUrge African Americans to fight their oppressors.
BEncourage societies strive for equality for all.
CExtol the virtues of living in the free North.
DArgue that slavery was not so bad for everyone.
432
The fact that Claude McKay visited Russia in 1922 exemplifies the following theme of Modernism_____________?
ACollectivism versus the authority of the individual.
BThe wearing away of traditional class structures.
CThe impact of WWI and the 1918 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.
DThe disassociated, anomic self.
433
What source did David Walker rely on the most for support in “Appeal in Four Articles” ?
AThe Bible.
BGreek history.
CSlave narratives.
DAbolitionist newspapers.
434
What is the character of Delia most of afraid of in Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat” ?
ARabid dogs.
BHer husband.
CSnakes.
DBertha.
435
The term “Civil Disobedience” was coined by which author ?
AWilliam Gates
BHenry David Thoreau
CBooker T. Washington
DAlain Locke
436
The subject of Soujourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman” is_______________?
AWomen’s rights.
BE. The rights of farm hands.
CThe right to keep one’s children.
DA and
437
In Nikki Giovanni’s “The American Vision of Lincoln,” the poet argues that the Capitol needs a statue of _____________next to the one of Abraham Lincoln?
AW.E.
BAmiri Baraka
CBooker T. Washington
DFrederick Douglass
438
Why was it important that slave narratives have a title page that claimed either that the narrative was written by the narrator himself (or his words were recorded by someone close to him, preferably white) ?
ASo the author could get paid.
BIn order for people to believe the events in the narratives.
CSo that slave owners could refute the events in the narratives.
DSo that the author could be assured he wouldn’t be recaptured.
439
Which author relied on complex characters and dialect to overturn American stereotypes about Southern African Americans ?
AWilliam Wells Brown
BRichard Wright
CCharles Chesnutt
DBooker T. Washington
440
W.E.B. Du Bois accuses Booker T. Washington of being______________?
AA Christian.
BA radical.
CAn accomodationist.
DA coward.