A. William Wells Brown
B. Richard Wright
C. Charles Chesnutt
D. Booker T. Washington
Related Mcqs:
- Which author writes a profound criticism of Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness,” accusing Conrad of reinforcing typical European stereotypes of Africa ?
A. Chinua Achebe
B. Edward Said
C. Arundhati Roy
D. Salman Rushdie - Spirituals like “Go Down Moses” were important to African Americans because_______________?
A. They showed that a hero would deliver them from slavery.
B. They gave hope that God would deliver them from slavery.
C. They helped them do their work faster.
D. They were based on African songs. - In the poem “When Malindy Sings,” Paul Laurence Dunbar uses irony and caricature to “signify” on white assumptions about African Americans. What does Henry Louis Gate’s term “signify” mean ?
A. Giving words double meaning that appear differently to white and black readers.
B. Fixing words with very specific meanings.
C. Making sure that what is written makes sense.
D. Lying to mislead the reader. - I know that many say that they are willing, perhaps the majority of the people, that we should enjoy our rights and privileges as they do. If so, I would ask why are not we protected in our persons and property throughout the Union? Is it not because there reigns in the breast of many who are leaders, a most unrighteous, unbecoming and impure black principle, and as corrupt and unholy as it can be–while these very same unfeeling, self-esteemed characters pretend to take the skin as a pretext to keep us from our unalienable and lawful rights? I would ask you if you would like to be disfranchised from all your rights, merely because your skin is white, and for no other crime? I’ll venture to say, these very characters who hold the skin to be such a barrier in the way, would be the first to cry out, injustice! Awful injustice! ?
A. Fredrick Douglass
B. John Winthrop
C. Benjamin Franklin
D. William Apess - Some critics argue that the use of dialect by such authors as Paul Laurence Dunbar and Charles Chesnutt did all of the following except_______________?
A. Strengthened the African American’s place in the world of literature
B. Perpetuated stereotypes
C. Allowed African American authors to sell their works more widely to white audiences
D. Showed that African Americans couldn’t speak properly. - In which dialect is Dante’s Vita Nuova primarily written ?
A. Latin
B. Tuscan
C. English
D. French - A work of criticism that considers how the author’s childhood trauma influenced his characters would be an example of_____________?
A. psychoanalytic criticism.
B. Marxist criticism.
C. New Criticism.
D. structuralism. - In “Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays”, what does William Hazlitt mean when he states the following: “We do not like to see our author’s plays acted, and least of all, ’Hamlet’. There is no play that suffers so much in being transferred to the stage” ?
A. Hamlet cannot be staged properly because of the complexity of the play’s use of language.
B. Hamlet is not relevant to the Romantic age.
C. The role of Hamlet cannot be properly played by any actor.
D. Hamlet is a work that was written to be read, not performed. - The term Electra Complex has originated from a tragedy entitled Electra. Who is the author of his tragedy ?
A. Aeschylus
B. Sophocles
C. Euripides
D. Seneca - Who wrote one of the most famous African American poems that begins with “what happens to a dream deferred” ?
A. Alice Walker
B. Etheridge Knight
C. Martin Luther King, Jr.
D. Langston Hughes
