A. Get an education.
B. Get a job.
C. To be clean.
D. To be a teacher
Related Mcqs:
- Booker T. Washington’s message in Up from Slavery is_______________?
A. Whites should pay reparations to former slaves.
B. African Americans should acculturate to mainstream White culture.
C. White institutions should reform to meet African American needs.
D. African Americans will have to help themselves by becoming educated. - For Booker T. Washington, racial uplift means_______________?
A. Rejecting all White assistance.
B. Allowing Whites to help African
Americans to reach their potential.
C. Calling for violent uprisings.
D. Separating Blacks by income level - W.E.B. Du Bois accuses Booker T. Washington of being______________?
A. A Christian.
B. A radical.
C. An accomodationist.
D. A coward. - Neo-Slave narratives are contemporary novels written about slavery. Toni Morrison’s Beloved is about the ghost of a baby the character Sethe murdered to keep her from being recaptured by their master. The opening chapter of the novel represents the neo-slave narrative by its________________?
A. Discussion of race relations in the North and South.
B. Condemnation of the plantation myth.
C. Examination of the psychological damage of slavery.
D. Insistence on desegregation. - 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. - Which book wins the 2013 Man Booker Prize__________________?
A. The Luminaries
B. Wolf Hall
C. The White Tiger
D. The Sea - Slavery in the United States was officially abolished in ______________?
A. 1804
B. 1865
C. 1848
D. 1807 - Which of the following statements about slavery is true ?
A. Most slave children lived in two family homes.
B. Slave owners did not allow their slaves to live as married couples.
C. Slaves were given limited civil rights.
D. Most slaves were not Christian. - Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, an indictment of slavery ?
A. Harriet Beecher Stowe
B. Richard Wright
C. Frederick Douglass
D. Phillis Wheatley - I was somewhat unmanageable when I first went [to Master Covey’s], but a few months of this discipline tamed me. … I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon men, and behold a man transformed into a brute!” ?
A. Fredrick Douglass
B. John Winthrop
C. Benjamin Franklin
D. William Apess
