english literature MCQs – Page 315

Practise multiple-choice questions from english literature for competitive examinations and subject revision. Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

english literature Mcqs

1. introduction to literary theory 2. miscellaneous literature 3. famous playwright poet and others 4. introduction to literary studies 5. cultural and literary in modernity 6. ages era period 7. cultural and literary english renaissance 8. modern poetry and poetics 9. medieval literature and culture 10. african american literature 11. the gothic novel 12. american literature 13. language and linguistics 14. english romantic poetry 15. literary theory and criticism 16. cultural and literary 18th 19th centuries

6281. In Nikki Giovannis The American Vision of Lincoln, the poet argues that the Capitol needs a statue of _____________next to the one of Abraham Lincoln?
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A. W.E.B. DuBois

B. Frederick Douglass

C. Booker T. Washington

D. Amiri Baraka

6282. The narrator of Langston Hughess Weary Blues is describing__________________?
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A. African American toasting on a city street corner.

B. Blues being played in a Harlem bar.

C. The call and response of an African American church congregation.

D. Negro spirituals being sung in the cotton fields.

6283. Why was it important that slave narratives have a title page that claimed either that the narrative was written by the narrator himself (or his words were recorded by someone close to him, preferably white) ?
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A. So that slave owners could refute the events in the narratives.

B. So that the author could be assured he wouldnt be recaptured.

C. So the author could get paid.

D. In order for people to believe the events in the narratives.

6284. In 125th Street and Abomey, Audre Lorde references images from ________________?
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A. African mythology.

B. Greek mythology.

C. Contemporary female artists.

D. African American folktale.

6285. All of the following are characteristics of the African American tradition of the toast except_____________?
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A. Toasting glorifies women

B. Toasting is oral

C. Toasting provides cultural identification

D. Toasting is a male event

6286. The trickster figure is usually_______________?
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A. Christian

B. None of these

C. Amoral (neither good nor evil)

D. Evil

6287. In the United States, Reconstruction_______________?
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A. Describes the rebuilding after World War I.

B. Is the time period that followed the Civil War.

C. Took place only in the North.

D. Refers to the Civil Rights movement.

6288. Etheridge Knights Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane, what is Hard Rocks function in the prison ?
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A. To do what the other inmates were afraid to do.

B. To keep the Blacks and Whites separated.

C. To help the other inmates escape.

D. To win money by fighting.

6289. One of the functions of protest poetry was to________________?
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A. Argue that slavery was not so bad for everyone.

B. Encourage societies strive for equality for all.

C. Urge African Americans to fight their oppressors.

D. Extol the virtues of living in the free North.

6290. Harriet Jacobs slave narrative Incidents in the Life differs from Harriet Beecher Stowes abolitionist novel Uncle Toms Cabin in what way ?
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A. Uncle Toms Cabin was used by abolitionists.

B. Stowe describes the treatment of slaves.

C. Stowe describes the escape of slaves.

D. Stowes novel is sentimental.

6291. In Chapter XV of William Wells Browns Clotel, Clotel is described as a quadroon. What does this mean ?
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A. She is one-quarter Black.

B. She cannot be a slave.

C. She is White.

D. She is one-eighth Black.

6292. In Chapter XV of William Wells Browns Clotel, why was Clotel made to cut her long hair ?
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A. To keep the lice away.

B. So that the other slaves would get along with her.

C. So she could sell it.

D. The mistress of the house was afraid her husband would be attracted to Clotel.

6293. Who wrote one of the most famous African American poems that begins with what happens to a dream deferred ?
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A. Alice Walker

B. Langston Hughes

C. Etheridge Knight

D. Martin Luther King, Jr.

6294. Slave narratives were shaped by_____________?
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A. Captivity narratives.

B. Folktales.

C. African mythology.

D. Abolitionist newspaper accounts.

6295. In Chapter XV of William Wells Browns Clotel, what characteristic of the sentimental novel is evident ?
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A. The scene invokes audience sympathy.

B. The heroine has to balance autonomy with self-denial.

C. The heroine conquers her passions.

D. A and B

E. B and C

6296. Phillis Wheatleys poetry is considered_____________?
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A. Highly original.

B. Typical of Colonial poetry.

C. Abolitionist in subject.

D. Progressive and challenging.

6297. African American dialects grew out of_______________?
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A. Slaves attempts to keep their conversations secret

B. The attempts of African slaves to communicate with each other

C. The 1960s protest movements

D. Slave owners teaching slaves Elizabethan English

6298. Race relations in the North are attacked in_______________?
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A. Toni Morrisons Beloved.

B. Harriet Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

C. William Wells Browns Clotel.

D. Harriet Wilsons Our Nig.

6299. Although Charles Johnsons Oxherding Tales is based on his Buddhist beliefs, he meant the novel to be a reworking of an American genre, the slave narrative. In what way is the novel, despite its philosophical underpinnings, an exemplar of the slave narrative ?
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A. Its emphasis on Christian ideals.

B. Its didactic (teaching) tone of voice.

C. Its characters movement from slavery to freedom.

D. The novels sensationalist scenes of violence.

6300. What does the term passing mean ?
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A. To do well on ones schoolwork.

B. The ability of an African American to live as a White person.

C. To leave ones past behind.

D. To gain approval from ones community.

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