What term describes Cassy’s racial heritage ?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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.

2. 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

3. Who wrote Heritage ?

   A. Countiee cullen
   B. William Faulkner
   C. T.S. Eliot
   D. Wallace stevens

4. According to Max Simon Nordau in his work “Degeneration,” which of the following best describes the term “Fin de Siècle” ?

   A. “The impotent despair of a sick man, who feels himself dying by inches in the midst of an eternally living nature blooming insolently forever”
   B. A term that means nothing except for the signification given to it by the user
   C. “A confession and a complaint”
   D. All of the above

5. Which of the following authors was not of mixed race heritage ?

   A. Jean Toomer
   B. Charles Chesnutt
   C. Booker T. Washington
   D. Frederick Douglass

6. Which of the following describes the precolonial era’s literature styles ?

   A. Pamphlets, poetry, novels, short stories
   B. Novels, poetry, dramas, histories
   C. Literary magazines, poetry, novels, short stories
   D. Narratives and poetry

7. Which statement best describes literary significance of William APess ?

   A. Indian Autobiography
   B. Father of free verse
   C. Father of American poetry
   D. Both A and B

8. What writing describes the death of two settlers at the hands of 300 bowmen ?

   A. General History of Virginia
   B. Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves
   C. Walum Olum
   D. Beowulf

9. Usher can only stand types of noises in his acutely uncomfortable state. The narrator describes a number of impromptus that Usher plays for him on which instrument ?

   A. The harp
   B. The guitar
   C. The ukulele
   D. The violin

10. Which of the following best describes litote, a favorite rhetorical device in Old English poetry ?

    A. embellishment at the service of Christian doctrine
    B. repetition of parallel syntactic structures
    C. ironic understatement
    D. stress on every third diphthong