A. Betrayal by the educational system.
B. Betrayal by her sister.
C. Betrayal by her community.
D. Betrayal by a family member.
Related Mcqs:
- Why does Dee want the quilt in Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” ?
A. She is proud of her heritage.
B. She doesn’t want Maggie to have it.
C. She wants to display it for her friends to see.
D. She loves the beauty of it. - Alice Walker’s story, “Everyday Use,” includes which “Womanist” concern ?
A. The importance of men to the African American family.
B. The negative consequences of feminism on the African American family.
C. The importance of African religious influence in America.
D. The importance of African American craftsmanship. - The term ‘the Palliser Novels’ is used to describe the political novels of ______________?
A. Charles Dickens
B. Anthony Trollope
C. W. H. White
D. B.Disraeli - How is “Jane Eyre” different from the novels of the first wave of English Gothic novels ?
A. Its protagonist is at risk for sexual transgression.
B. It is a Bildungsroman.
C. It explains strange phenomena.
D. The theme of imprisonment is prominent. - Generally speaking, African-American themes were very rare in white modernist poetry. Which of the following white poets attempted to evoke elements of black experience in his or her poems ?
A. H.D.
B. Hart Crane
C. William Carlos Williams
D. T.S. Eliot - What is the “double-bind” that African- American women poets encountered in the thirties and forties, according to Anthony Walton’s essay ?
A. Being overworked in menial jobs having to raise large families
B. Being a subordinated woman in a male dominated culture and a member of a suppressed minority race in the middle of a dominant white culture
C. Having little formal education with little access to publishers
D. Being ignored by a traditional poetry reading public because what they wrote about was the travails of subsistence living - What quality does the Gothic novel of the 18th and early 19th centuries share with the majority of English novels of the same time period ?
A. Realism
B. An epistolary format
C. A focus on the individual
D. An English setting - 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 - African American dialects grew out of_______________?
A. The 1960s protest movements
B. The attempts of African slaves to communicate with each other
C. Slave owners teaching slaves Elizabethan English
D. Slaves’ attempts to keep their conversations secret - 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
