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61. Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?
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A. A traditional poet

B. A classical poet

C. A Modernist poet

D. A performance poet

62. In Gwendolyn Brooks poem, kitchenette building, what is most important to the buildings inhabitants ?
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A. Having a bathroom with warm water.

B. Following ones dreams.

C. Finding a mate.

D. Getting food on the table.

63. Uncle Julius is a character developed by______________?
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A. Richard Wright

B. Charles Chesnutt

C. Joel Chandler Harris

D. Harriet Beecher Stowe

64. Martin Luther King, Jr.s Letter from Birmingham Jail, King advocates_______________?
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A. Waiting for times to get better.

B. Using violence when necessary.

C. Disobeying unjust laws.

D. Breaking the law.

65. In Nella Larsens novel Passing, why is Clare afraid to have another child ?
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A. She is afraid it may have dark skin.

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.

66. What is the character of Delia most of afraid of in Zora Neale Hurstons Sweat ?
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A. Bertha.

B. Snakes.

C. Her husband.

D. Rabid dogs.

67. What was the Great Migration ?
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A. When African Americans settled Liberia.

B. When slaves traveled the Underground Railroad.

C. A period of time when African Americans moved North in large numbers.

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

68. The back to Africa movement was primarily about______________?
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A. Leaving the African peoples alone.

B. Bringing African culture to the United States.

C. Completing an oppressed peoples quest for freedom, liberty and democracy.

D. Writers who took African themes for their work.

69. Which of the following authors was not of mixed race heritage ?
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A. Frederick Douglass

B. Jean Toomer

C. Booker T. Washington

D. Charles Chesnutt

70. In Jean Toomers Her Lips Are Copper Wires, a kiss is compared to_______________?
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A. A waterfall.

B. Electricity.

C. A factory.

D. A war.

71. The mask in Paul Laurence Dunbars poem, We Wear the Mask, represents_____________?
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A. The carved masks of African gods.

B. Who the narrator wishes to be.

C. The persona that the characters show the world.

D. Characters from the Bible.

72. The supportive network of female slaves led to_______________?
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A. Resistance against dehumanization.

B. Lower suicide rates.

C. Resistance to the overseers.

D. Learning to be midwives.

73. Until recent years it was thought that Harriet Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was____________?
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A. An anonymous narrative.

B. Based on a New England captivity narrative.

C. Fiction written by Lydia Maria Child.

D. Written by Jacobs son.

74. The importance of Freedoms Journal was____________?
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A. It was the first African American newspaper.

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.

75. 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

76. 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.

77. 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.

78. 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.

79. 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

80. The trickster figure is usually_______________?
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A. Christian

B. None of these

C. Amoral (neither good nor evil)

D. Evil

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