A. William Wells Brown

B. Harriet Beecher Stowe

C. Harriet Jacobs

A. A Christian.

B. A coward.

D. A radical.

A. Their belief that women should have equal rights.

C. Their belief that African Americans should govern themselves.

D. Their belief in necessary violence.

A. He had to leave the country.

B. Because in was cheaper to live in Africa.

D. He was asked by African countries to bring African Americans to Africa.

A. Making sure that what is written makes sense.

B. Lying to mislead the reader.

D. Fixing words with very specific meanings.

A. Christians should free their slaves.

B. Slaves are the children of Cain.

C. Slaves should rebel against the Christian religion.

A. To encourage feelings of pride in African American readers

B. Make his written inaccessible to white audiences

C. Explain how African Americans could not learn standard English

A. A child dying of SIDS.

B. The stillborn death of a child.

C. A murdered child.

A. Abolitionist newspapers.

C. Greek history.

D. Slave narratives.

A. Existed only in fiction by female authors.

B. Existed only in fiction by White authors.

C. Developed in the 20th century.

A. A traditional poet

B. A classical poet

C. A Modernist poet

B. Following ones dreams.

C. Finding a mate.

D. Getting food on the table.

A. Richard Wright

C. Joel Chandler Harris

D. Harriet Beecher Stowe

A. Waiting for times to get better.

B. Using violence when necessary.

D. Breaking the law.

B. Her husband has threatened to leave her.

C. She doesnt want to lose her figure.

D. She almost died in childbirth with her first child.

A. Bertha.

C. Her husband.

D. Rabid dogs.

A. When African Americans settled Liberia.

B. When slaves traveled the Underground Railroad.

D. When African Americans migrated to the South from the North.

A. Leaving the African peoples alone.

B. Bringing African culture to the United States.

D. Writers who took African themes for their work.

A. Frederick Douglass

B. Jean Toomer

D. Charles Chesnutt

A. A waterfall.

C. A factory.

D. A war.

A. The carved masks of African gods.

B. Who the narrator wishes to be.

D. Characters from the Bible.

B. Lower suicide rates.

C. Resistance to the overseers.

D. Learning to be midwives.

A. An anonymous narrative.

B. Based on a New England captivity narrative.

D. Written by Jacobs son.

B. It argued for a separate African American community in America.

C. It was the first African American novel.

D. It was published by Frederick Douglass.

A. W.E.B. DuBois

C. Booker T. Washington

D. Amiri Baraka

A. African American toasting on a city street corner.

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

D. Negro spirituals being sung in the cotton fields.

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.

B. Greek mythology.

C. Contemporary female artists.

D. African American folktale.

B. Toasting is oral

C. Toasting provides cultural identification

D. Toasting is a male event

A. Christian

B. None of these

D. Evil

A. Describes the rebuilding after World War I.

C. Took place only in the North.

D. Refers to the Civil Rights movement.

B. To keep the Blacks and Whites separated.

C. To help the other inmates escape.

D. To win money by fighting.

A. Argue that slavery was not so bad for everyone.

C. Urge African Americans to fight their oppressors.

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

A. Uncle Toms Cabin was used by abolitionists.

B. Stowe describes the treatment of slaves.

C. Stowe describes the escape of slaves.

B. She cannot be a slave.

C. She is White.

D. She is one-eighth Black.

A. To keep the lice away.

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

C. So she could sell it.

A. Alice Walker

C. Etheridge Knight

D. Martin Luther King, Jr.

B. Folktales.

C. African mythology.

D. Abolitionist newspaper accounts.

A. The scene invokes audience sympathy.

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

C. The heroine conquers her passions.

E. B and C

A. Highly original.

C. Abolitionist in subject.

D. Progressive and challenging.

A. Slaves attempts to keep their conversations secret

C. The 1960s protest movements

D. Slave owners teaching slaves Elizabethan English

A. Toni Morrisons Beloved.

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

C. William Wells Browns Clotel.

A. Its emphasis on Christian ideals.

B. Its didactic (teaching) tone of voice.

D. The novels sensationalist scenes of violence.

A. To do well on ones schoolwork.

C. To leave ones past behind.

D. To gain approval from ones community.

A. Its focus on landscape.

B. Its focus on modern city life.

D. Its insistence on plot.

B. Ordinary language is used.

C. Events are plausible.

D. Presentation is objective.

B. To explain his religious views.

C. To describe the horrors of life on the Post-bellum plantation.

D. To amuse the narrators sickly wife.

A. Strengthened the African Americans place in the world of literature

B. Perpetuated stereotypes

D. Allowed African American authors to sell their works more widely to white audiences

A. To raise awareness of violence in African American youth.

C. To raise money for Sickle Cell Anemia research.

D. To support the Back to Africa Movement.

B. Betrayal by the educational system.

C. Betrayal by a family member.

D. Betrayal by her community.