The trickster figure is usually_______________?

A. Amoral (neither good nor evil)
B. Christian
C. Evil
D. None of these

Harriet Jacobs wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl to show______________?

A. That female slaves were escaping more frequently than men.
B. How slavery was worse for men.
C. How females were affected by slavery.
D. That female slaves were more valuable than male slaves.

In Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “When Malindy Sings,” what kind of music is Malindy singing ?

A. Cakewalk tunes.
B. Gospel.
C. Jazz.
D. Blues.

The term “Civil Disobedience” was coined by which author ?

A. William gates
B. Henry david thoreau
C. Booker t. washington
D. Alain locke

In Chapter XV of William Wells Brown’s Clotel, why was Clotel made to cut her long hair ?

A. The mistress of the house was afraid her husband would be attracted to clotel.
B. To keep the lice away.
C. So that the other slaves would get along with her.
D. So she could sell it.

Which author relied on complex characters and dialect to overturn American stereotypes about Southern African Americans ?

A. William wells brown
B. Richard wright
C. Charles chesnutt
D. Booker t. washington

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) ?

A. So the author could get paid.
B. In order for people to believe the events in the narratives.
C. So that slave owners could refute the events in the narratives.
D. So that the author could be assured he wouldn’t be recaptured.

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?

A. W.e.b. dubosi
B. Amiri baraka
C. Booker t. washington
D. Frederick douglass

Frederick Douglass argued that slaves sang spirituals for all of the following reasons except______________?

A. To impress the horrors of slavery on listeners
B. To ease their pain
C. To pray for deliverance
D. To show that they were content in their work

Which characteristic of the slave narrative did Frederick Douglass include in the first chapter of his Narrative ?

A. Narration of a deserved punishment.
B. Depictions of a beautiful rural environment.
C. Descriptions of the kinds of food and clothing slaves were given.
D. The author’s father is often a white MAN.