📚English Literature MCQs
English Literature MCQs
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What was the Great Migration ?
AA period of time when African Americans moved North in large numbers.
BWhen African Americans settled Liberia.
CWhen slaves traveled the Underground Railroad.
DWhen African Americans migrated to the South from the North.
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Some critics argue that the use of dialect by such authors as Paul Laurence Dunbar and Charles Chesnutt did all of the following except_______________?
AStrengthened the African American’s place in the world of literature
BPerpetuated stereotypes
CAllowed African American authors to sell their works more widely to white audiences
DShowed that African Americans couldn’t speak properly.
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African American dialects grew out of_______________?
AThe 1960s protest movements
BThe attempts of African slaves to communicate with each other
CSlave owners teaching slaves Elizabethan English
DSlaves’ attempts to keep their conversations secret
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In writing Beloved, Toni Morrison drew on what for inspiration ?
AHer own memories of slavery.
BStories her grandmother told her.
CThe television series Roots.
DSlave narratives.
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Slave narratives were shaped by_____________?
ACaptivity narratives.
BAbolitionist newspaper accounts.
CFolktales.
DAfrican mythology.
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Brer Rabbit is an example of what kind of character ?
ATrickster
BVictim
CRepresentation of the slave master
D“Uncle Tom” character who feels slavery is best for the African American
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In Jean Toomer’s “Her Lips Are Copper Wires,” a kiss is compared to_______________?
AA waterfall.
BElectricity.
CA war.
DA factory.
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Why does Dee want the quilt in Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” ?
AShe is proud of her heritage.
BShe doesn’t want Maggie to have it.
CShe wants to display it for her friends to see.
DShe loves the beauty of it.
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In “125th Street and Abomey,” Audre Lorde references images from ________________?
AAfrican mythology.
BAfrican American folktale.
CGreek mythology.
DContemporary female artists.
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W.E.B. Du Bois argued that a liberal arts college education was needed for______________?
AThe “Talented Tenth.”
BAll African Americans.
CAfrican American women.
DOnly White Americans.