English Literature Mcqs — Test 3
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Question 1
The trickster figure is usually_______________?
Question 2
Harriet Jacobs wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl to show______________?
Question 3
In Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “When Malindy Sings,” what kind of music is Malindy singing ?
Question 4
The term “Civil Disobedience” was coined by which author ?
Question 5
In Chapter XV of William Wells Brown’s Clotel, why was Clotel made to cut her long hair ?
Question 6
Which author relied on complex characters and dialect to overturn American stereotypes about Southern African Americans ?
Question 7
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) ?
Question 8
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?
Question 9
Frederick Douglass argued that slaves sang spirituals for all of the following reasons except______________?
Question 10
Which characteristic of the slave narrative did Frederick Douglass include in the first chapter of his Narrative ?