English MCQs — Test 21
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Question 1
In Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem, “kitchenette building,” what is most important to the building’s inhabitants ?
Question 2
In Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild,” The Tlick keep the humans happy by_______________?
Question 3
Neo-Slave narratives are contemporary novels written about slavery. Toni Morrison’s Beloved is about the ghost of a baby the character Sethe murdered to keep her from being recaptured by their master. The opening chapter of the novel represents the neo-slave narrative by its________________?
Question 4
According to Henry Louis Gates, Jr., reconstructing black people into the “New Negro” has been a matter of_______________?
Question 5
What unforgivable action does Mag Smith take in Chapter One of Our Nig ?
Question 6
The narrator of Langston Hughes’s “Weary Blues” is describing__________________?
Question 7
Booker T. Washington’s message in Up from Slavery is_______________?
Question 8
Charles W. Chesnutt used vernacular speech to________________?
Question 9
In Chapter Three of Booker T. Washington’s Up from Slavery, Washington’s primary goal is to______________?
Question 10
The mask in Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem, “We Wear the Mask,” represents_____________?