African-American Literature

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

A. Lucy Terry
B. William Wells Brown
C. Harriet Wilson
D. Harriet Jacobs

A. Harriet Jacob’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
B. Harriet Wilson’s Our Nig.
C. William Wells Brown’s Clotel.
D. Toni Morrison’s Beloved.

A. William Wells Brown
B. Lydia Maria Child
C. Harriet Jacobs
D. Harriet Beecher Stowe

A. Based on a New England captivity narrative.
B. An anonymous narrative.
C. Fiction written by Lydia Maria Child.
D. Written by Jacob’s son.

A. The “Talented Tenth.”
B. All African Americans.
C. African American women.
D. Only White Americans.