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ENGL411 Final Exam - African-American Literature
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MCQs on verbal modes and their impact on the literary production of African American authors from the Colonial period to the current day.
 

ENGL411 Final Exam - African-American Literature
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1. Harriet Jacob's slave narrative Incidents in the Life differs from Harriet Beecher Stowe's abolitionist novel Uncle Tom's Cabin in what way?
2. Until recent years it was thought that Harriet Jacob's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was:
3. The fact that Claude McKay visited Russia in 1922 exemplifies the following theme of Modernism:
4. Etheridge Knight's 'Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane,' what is Hard Rock's function in the prison?
5. The genre Octavia Butler's 'Bloodchild' is:
6. W.E.B. Du Bois accuses Booker T. Washington of being:
7. Uncle Julius is a character developed by:
8. The subject of Soujourner Truth's 'Ain't I a Woman' is:
9. The theme of Phillis Wheatley's 'On Being Brought from Africa to America' is:
10. Alice Walker's story, 'Everyday Use,' includes which 'Womanist' concern?
11. In Nella Larsen's novel Passing, why is Clare afraid to have another child?
12. In Jean Toomer's 'Her Lips Are Copper Wires,' a kiss is compared to:
13. What was special about Zora Neale Hurston's home town of Eatonville, Florida?
14. Harriet Jacobs wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl to show:
15. Who introduced the character of the 'tragic mulatto'?
16. 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?
17. In Chapter Three of Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery, Washington's primary goal is to:
18. In Chapter XV of William Wells Brown's Clotel, Clotel is described as a quadroon. What does this mean?
19. Slave narratives were shaped by:
20. In Gwendolyn Brooks' poem, 'we real cool,' the Golden Shovel is:
21. In Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, living underground is symbolic of:
22. In what way is Jane Toomer's Cane an example of Modernism?
23. In Paul Laurence Dunbar's 'A Cabin Tale,' which character is a trickster figure?
24. In the United States, Reconstruction:
25. The mask in Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem, 'We Wear the Mask,' represents:

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