English Literature MCQs

In “125th Street and Abomey,” Audre Lorde references images from ________________?

A. African mythology.
B. African american folktale.
C. Greek mythology.
D. Contemporary female artists.

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What is the character of Delia most of afraid of in Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat” ?

A. Rabid dogs.
B. Her husband.
C. Snakes.
D. Bertha.

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What source did David Walker rely on the most for support in “Appeal in Four Articles” ?

A. The bible.
B. Greek history.
C. Slave narratives.
D. Abolitionist newspapers.

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Slave owners resisted abolition for what reason ?

A. Slaveholders objected to losing leisure time.
B. Slaves outnumbered non-slaves and might rebel.
C. Slaveholders felt economic security rested on the system of slavery.
D. B and c.

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David Walker’s “Appeal in Four Articles” argues that_________________?

A. The races should not intermarry.
B. Christians the only ones not to blame for the existence of slavery.
C. Blacks have the duty to resist slavery.
D. Blacks should return to africa.

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Arna Bontemps’s “A Summer Tragedy” attacks the institution of________________?

A. Sharecropping.
B. Slavery.
C. Segregation.
D. Prostitution.

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Spirituals like “Go Down Moses” were important to African Americans because_______________?

A. They showed that a hero would deliver them from slavery.
B. They gave hope that god would deliver them from slavery.
C. They helped them do their work faster.
D. They were based on african songs.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” King advocates_______________?

A. Breaking the law.
B. Using violence when necessary.
C. Waiting for times to get better.
D. Disobeying unjust laws.

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What is the subject of Lucille Clifton’s “the lost baby poem” ?

A. A child dying of sids.
B. The stillborn death of a child.
C. Abortion.
D. A murdered child.

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The importance of Lucy Terry’s “Bars Flight” is________________?

A. The poem’s form of rhymed tetrameter couplets.
B. The poem shows her future work as a advocate of civil rights.
C. The poem is filled with christian symbolism.
D. The fact that the poem is the most accurate account of the 1742 indian-white engagement in deerfield, massachusetts.

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