A. Because in was cheaper to live in Africa.
B. Because he did not feel African Americans would ever achieve equality in America.
C. He was asked by African countries to bring African Americans to Africa.
D. He had to leave the country.
Related Mcqs:
- The back to Africa movement was primarily about______________?
A. Bringing African culture to the United States.
B. Leaving the African peoples alone.
C. Writers who took African themes for their work.
D. Completing an oppressed people’s quest for freedom, liberty and democracy. - In Amy Lowell’s imagist poem, “This Green Bowl,” a handmade bowl is compared to a pond in the woods. Can one say that, as in Pound’s “Cantos,” this poem’s dominant tone is impersonal? Why, or why not ?
A. Yes, Lowell’s detailed description of nature draws attention away from human realities.
B. Yes, the lyrical voice in Lowell’s poem seeks to express universal rather than individual experience.
C. No, Lowell’s poem is not impersonal; it addresses the maker of the bowl directly and speculates about his state of mind.
D. No, even though Lowell strives for impersonal expression by borrowing poetic devices from Pound, she fails to accomplish this - 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. - Before humans were sold as commodities, what item was highly sought after in West Africa ?
A. Diamonds
B. Land
C. Gold
D. Gasoline - 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 - In Nella Larsen’s novel Passing, why is Clare afraid to have another child ?
A. She almost died in childbirth with her first child.
B. She doesn’t want to lose her figure.
C. Her husband has threatened to leave her.
D. She is afraid it may have dark skin. - Why was the “drop of blood” rule developed ?
A. To keep the slave offspring of White slave owners from inheriting.
B. To allow mixed-race children to get scholarships meant for African Americans.
C. To make sure mothers of mixed-race children got custody.
D. To keep White slave owner parents of mixed-race offspring from having to pay for their children. - Why does Dee want the quilt in Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” ?
A. She is proud of her heritage.
B. She doesn’t want Maggie to have it.
C. She wants to display it for her friends to see.
D. She loves the beauty of it. - Why is the couple in Arna Bontemps’s “A Summer Tragedy” getting dressed up ?
A. To go to a party.
B. To go pay old man Stevenson.
C. To end their lives.
D. To go to church. - In Chapter XV of William Wells Brown’s Clotel, why was Clotel made to cut her long hair ?
A. The mistress of the house was afraid her husband would be attracted to Clotel.
B. To keep the lice away.
C. So that the other slaves would get along with her.
D. So she could sell it.
