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.
Related Mcqs:
- The theme of Phillis Wheatley’s “On Being Brought from Africa to America” is_______________?
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. - Which American poet is hailed as the representative poet of America ?
A. Robert Frost
B. R. W. Emerson
C. Walt Whitman
D. Edgar Allen Poe - Fill in the blank. In 1585, _______________ sponsored the first English colony in America on Roanoke Island (now North Carolina)?
A. Sir Thomas More
B. Sir Walter Raleigh
C. John Foxe
D. John Lyly - According to Langston Hughes’s essay “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (his answer to George Schuyler’s essay “Negro Art Hokum”), what is the “mountain” that stands in the way of “any true Negro art in America” ?
A. It is the racial discrimination endemic in the white community.
B. It is the racial segregation in the South.
C. It is a widespread “urge toward whiteness” among African Americans.
D. It is a widespread “urge to incorporate and neutralize other cultures” among white Americans. - The mask in Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem, “We Wear the Mask,” represents_____________?
A. The persona that the characters show the world.
B. The carved masks of African gods.
C. Characters from the Bible.
D. Who the narrator wishes to be. - Alice Walker’s novels often explore the abuse experienced by African American women. What is the only abuse Celie does not experience The Color Purple ?
A. Betrayal by the educational system.
B. Betrayal by her sister.
C. Betrayal by her community.
D. Betrayal by a family member. - In Charles Chesnutt’s “The Goophered Grape Vine,” why does Uncle Julius tell the Northern visitors the story of the spell put on the grapes ?
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. - In Jean Toomer’s “Her Lips Are Copper Wires,” a kiss is compared to_______________?
A. A waterfall.
B. Electricity.
C. A war.
D. A factory. - Who wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl ?
A. Lucy Terry
B. William Wells Brown
C. Harriet Wilson
D. Harriet Jacobs - In Nikki Giovanni’s “The American Vision of Lincoln,” the poet argues that the Capitol needs a statue of _____________next to the one of Abraham Lincoln?
A. W.E.B. DuBois
B. Amiri Baraka
C. Booker T. Washington
D. Frederick Douglass
