All of the following are characteristics of the African American tradition of the toast except ___?
A. Toasting is oral
B. Toasting is a male event
C. Toasting glorifies women
D. Toasting provides cultural identification
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, an indictment of slavery ?
A. Harriet Beecher Stowe
B. Richard Wright
C. Frederick Douglass
D. Phillis Wheatley
Who wrote one of the most famous African American poems that begins with “what happens to a dream deferred” ?
A. Alice Walker
B. Etheridge Knight
C. Martin Luther King, Jr.
D. Langston Hughes
In what way is Jane Toomer’s Cane an example of Modernism ?
A. Its fractured, collage effect.
B. Its insistence on plot.
C. Its focus on landscape.
D. Its focus on modern city life.
In Nella Larsen’s novel Passing, why is Clare afraid to have another child ?
A. She almost died in childbirth with her first child.
B. She doesn’t want to lose her figure.
C. Her husband has threatened to leave her.
D. She is afraid it may have dark skin.
In Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild,” The Tlick keep the humans happy by _____?
A. Supplying them with narcotic eggs.
B. Letting them choose their own mates.
C. Freeing the males after they are hosts.
D. Paying them very well.
In Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem, “kitchenette building,” what is most important to the building’s inhabitants ?
A. Having a bathroom with warm water.
B. Following one’s dreams.
C. Getting food on the table.
D. Finding a mate.
The narrator of Langston Hughes’s “Weary Blues” is describing ______?
A. Negro spirituals being sung in the cotton fields.
B. The call and response of an African American church congregation.
C. African American toasting on a city street corner.
D. Blues being played in a Harlem bar.
What unforgivable action does Mag Smith take in Chapter One of Our Nig ?
A. She tries to pass as White.
B. She washes clothes for White women.
C. She lets a man help her out.
D. She marries a Black man.
In Chapter Three of Booker T. Washington’s Up from Slavery, Washington’s primary goal is to __?
A. Get an education.
B. Get a job.
C. To be clean.
D. To be a teacher
