Harriet Jacob’s slave narrative Incidents in the Life differs from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s abolitionist novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin in what way ?

A. Stowe’s novel is sentimental.
B. Stowe describes the treatment of slaves.
C. Stowe describes the escape of slaves.
D. Uncle tom’s cabin was used by abolitionists.

According to Larry Neal, the primary goal of the Black Arts Movement is_______________?

A. To speak to the spiritual and cultural needs of african americans.
B. To raise awareness of violence in african american youth.
C. To support the back to africa movement.
D. To raise money for sickle cell anemia research.

In the poem “When Malindy Sings,” Paul Laurence Dunbar uses irony and caricature to “signify” on white assumptions about African Americans. What does Henry Louis Gate’s term “signify” mean ?

A. Giving words double meaning that appear differently to white and black readers.
B. Fixing words with very specific meanings.
C. Making sure that what is written makes sense.
D. Lying to mislead the reader.

The fact that Claude McKay visited Russia in 1922 exemplifies the following theme of Modernism_____________?

A. Collectivism versus the authority of the individual.
B. The wearing away of traditional class structures.
C. The impact of wwi and the 1918 bolshevik revolution in russia.
D. The disassociated, anomic self.

One of the functions of protest poetry was to________________?

A. Urge african americans to fight their oppressors.
B. Encourage societies strive for equality for all.
C. Extol the virtues of living in the free north.
D. Argue that slavery was not so bad for everyone.

Native Son was written by___________________?

A. Jean toomer.
B. Richard wright.
C. Ralph ellison.
D. James baldwin.

Why is the couple in Arna Bontemps’s “A Summer Tragedy” getting dressed up ?

A. To go to a party.
B. To go pay old MAN stevenson.
C. To end their lives.
D. To go to church.

The theme of Phillis Wheatley’s “On Being Brought from Africa to America” is_______________?

A. Slaves are capable of becoming good christians.
B. Slaves should rebel against the christian religion.
C. Slaves are the children of cain.
D. Christians should free their slaves.

Who wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl ?

A. Lucy terry
B. William wells brown
C. Harriet wilson
D. Harriet jacobs

Sonia Sanchez’s “right on: white america” is protesting________________?

A. The extermination of native americans.
B. That there is a black america and a white america.
C. Black on black violence.
D. The fact that america still has a frontier mentality.