African-American Literature

A. Sharecropping.
B. Slavery.
C. Segregation.
D. Prostitution.

A. The races should not intermarry.
B. Christians the only ones not to blame for the existence of slavery.
C. Blacks have the duty to resist slavery.
D. Blacks should return to Africa.

A. Slaveholders objected to losing leisure time.
B. Slaves outnumbered non-slaves and might rebel.
C. Slaveholders felt economic security rested on the system of slavery.
D. B and C.
E. A and C.

A. The name of a restaurant the pool players cannot enter.
B. A metaphor for colossal lies they have been buried with.
C. A metaphor for the pool players who are trying to dig out of their neighborhood.
D. The name of a pool hall.

A. The poem’s form of rhymed tetrameter couplets.
B. The poem shows her future work as a advocate of civil rights.
C. The poem is filled with Christian symbolism.
D. The fact that the poem is the most accurate account of the 1742 Indian-White engagement in Deerfield, Massachusetts.

A. A child dying of SIDS.
B. The stillborn death of a child.
C. Abortion.
D. A murdered child.

A. Breaking the law.
B. Using violence when necessary.
C. Waiting for times to get better.
D. Disobeying unjust laws.

A. To describe the horrors of life on the Post-bellum plantation.
B. To explain his religious views.
C. To amuse the narrator’s sickly wife.
D. So they won’t interrupt his income from the neglected grape harvest.

A. Harriet Beecher Stowe
B. Joel Chandler Harris
C. Richard Wright
D. Charles Chesnutt

A. It was the first African American novel.
B. It was the first African American newspaper.
C. It was published by Frederick Douglass.
D. It argued for a separate African American community in America.