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Besides their law-defying and highly sexualized representations, what other characteristics describe the Bad man and bad woman of the vernacular tradition?

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Outsmart The Man and blow him to hell too

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What best describes the trope of the talking book?

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Books that talk black and talk back.

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What modern music genre features Bad men and Bad Women of the black vernacular tradition?

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Rap and hip hop.

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FrederickDouglass writes the "grief and sorrow" in songs sung by slaves woulddo more to show the evils of slavery than what?

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Readingvolumes of abolitionist literature.

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Some scholars have suggested that most of Horton's poetry follows:

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That of white poets of his day and place.

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What rhetorical appeal does Jupiter Hammon make?

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Personal responsibility

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What rhetorical appeal against slavery does David Walker represent?

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Radical Opposition

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Thomas Jefferson believed that Phillis Wheatley's poetry:

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Below the dignity of criticism

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Who was the first to write a play?

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William Wells Brown

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Harriet Jacobs published her narrative under what pen name?

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Linda Brent

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Who was the first to write a novel?

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William Wells Brown.

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What rhetorical appeal does George Horton make?

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Emigration

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David Walker's appeal can be said to argue for what we currently identify as:

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Affirmative action

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What rhetorical tradition does Venture Smith represent?

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Disillusionment

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What rhetorical appeal against slavery does Maria Stewart represent?

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Radical Opposition

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Maria Stewart's Franklin Hall lecture participates in what African American vernacular tradition?

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Sermon making

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In James Weldon Johnson's The Book of Negro Poetry he cites what book as "One of the great books written in this country since the Civil War"?

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Du Bois's Souls of Black Folk (1903)

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Who are two writers of the "plantation tradition"

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Thomas Nelson Page and Thomas Dixon.

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From Johnson's perspective, what is achieved when a specific group of people produce significant art and literature

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Greatness

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What best characterizes the writing of Ida B. Wells-Barnett?

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Anti-lynching journalism.

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Which s not a common theme in plantation fiction?

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Promoting equality among African Americans and whites.

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What took place in 1866?

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Rise of the Klan

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In regard to the plantation tradition, the writings of Chessnutt and Booker T.Washington

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Defy it

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In Johnson's Autobiography, what makes him feel "shame at being identified with [blacks] is"?

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A lynching he witnesses.

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What is the plantation novel?

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Novel written by white southern authors to show that slavery was not violent but beneficial to blacks.

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As a literary figure, the tragic mulatto can be said to represent

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The relationship between the races and meditation on the relationship.

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In the poem Paul Lawrence Dunbar's "An Ante-Bellum Sermon," how will the enslaved know when freedom has been achieved?

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"when we'se reco'nised ez citiz-"

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Which one was not an author during Reconstruction to 1919

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Claude McKay.

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In the Souls of Black Folks, what is the best synonym for what Du Bois calls"double-consciousness"?

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Racial schizophrenia.

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Which author made the following expression about art and politics: "I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda"?

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W.E.B. Du Bois.

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In "Criteria for Negro Art," what Du Bois claims that "all art is"

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Propaganda

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Which of the following genres are considered to be a part the African American literary tradition?

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All of the above.

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In "Criteria" what does Du Bois mean when he writes that "white artists themselves suffer from this narrowing of the field"?

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That they are unable to present whites in unflattering portrayals.

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Which definition below is not associated with the term " the New Negro"?

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African Americans contesting separate but equal laws.

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Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun is an example of what literary mode?

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Realism

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Gwendolyn Brooks is known for writing realism and what other mode?

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Black aesthetic.

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In Ellison's Invisible Man, as which African American writer did the protagonist visualize himself as he wrote his graduation oration?

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Booker T. Washington.

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What literary mode represents life as it is?

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Realism

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In Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, what precipitates the central conflict in the play?

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Big Walters death and decisions about what to do with the $10,000 insurance money.

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How does Ralph Ellison define the blues?

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"An autobiographical chronicle of personal catastrophe expressed lyrically."

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Lorraine Hansberry said that ____________ as a literary technique was "like staring at the garbage can."

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Naturalism

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What literary mode zooms in on particular, specific, often disturbing aspects of life?

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Naturalism

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The 2007 film, the Great Debaters featured what modernist poet?

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Melvin Tolson.

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For which book of poetry did Gwendolyn Brooks win the 1950 Pulitzer Prize?

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Annie Allen.

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What is Black nationalism?

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A form of racial group identification and group development of economics, politics, and education.

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Amiri Baraka's play Dutchman is an example of what literary mode

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Black Aesthetic.

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In Amiri Baraka's poem Black Art, which line advocates for a purely aesthetic view mode of black literature?

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None of the above.

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Racism and racial anxiety in discourse and literature is often represented in terms of________?

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All of the above.

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According to Addison Gayle, "the black artist in the American society who creates without interjecting a note of anger is creating" art as a/an________________?

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American

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According to Addison Gayle, "anger"and "nationalism" have always been characteristics of black art. Which sentence from Gayle's "The Black Aesthetic" explains the "new element"introduced by the black aesthetic?

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The black artists waged war not against society but against societal laws and mores.

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Which Supreme Court decision was reversed in Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka,Kansas?

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Plessy v. Ferguson.

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Black Power Movement's resistance to integration stems from what political factor?

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Whites continued to disallow blacks to fully integrate into American society.

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The1963 March on Washington, D.C., was a demonstration for what?

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Civil Rights.

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Notions of "American universality" have tended to exclude black art/literature, because it has been perceived that __________?

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There are no universal implications in black life.

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American universality has tended to be associated with the culture and values of____________?

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White Americans.

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Sam Cooke, Nina Simone, and Sweet Honey in the Rock are artists of what period?

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Black Arts Movement.

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Gwendolyn Brooks is known for writing realism and what other mode

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Black aesthetic.

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In"Towards a Black Aesthetic," Hoyt Fuller writes that "black revolutionaries [do not] reject the 'universal' statements inherent in Shakespeare's works." What then does he say they do reject?

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"The literary assumption that the style and language and the concerns of Shakespeare establish the appropriate limits and 'frame of reference' for black poetry and people."

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Toni Morrison says that fiction for her has never been merely

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Entertainment

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In Toni Morrison's 1993 Nobel lecture, "The Bird Is In Your Hands," whom do the children represent?

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Morrison doesn't say.

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How does the neo-passing narrative differ from the previous passing novels?

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The previous passing novel focuses on racial passing whereas the neo-passing novels includes gender, sexual, and class passing.

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Which is a critical trend of literature written since 1975?

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All of the above.

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In"Unspeakable Things Unspoken," Morrison writes that "when blacks discovered they had shaped or become a culturally formed race, and that it had specific and revered difference, suddenly they were told __________"

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There is no such thing as 'race'.

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Venise Berry, Nikky Finney, Rita Dove wrote during what period?

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Literature since 1975.

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How does Toni Morrison feel about being classified as a "black woman writer"?

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She embraces and cultivates her identity as a "black woman writer."

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In Toni Morrison's 1993 Nobel lecture, "The Bird Is In Your Hands" what does the Bird symbolize?

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Language

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The Known World, Corriegadora, Dessa Rose are examples of what genre

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Neo-slave narratives.

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Which author made the following expression about art and politics:"unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful"?

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Toni Morrison.

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In Toni Morrison's 1993 Nobel lecture, "The Bird Is In Your Hands," whom does the Wise Woman symbolize?

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Practiced writer.

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1. In"Unspeakable Things Unspoken " what is one of the reasons Morrison gives for choosing the expression "Quiet as it's kept" to open The Bluest Eye ?

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All of the above.

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In Toni Morrison's "Unspeakable Things Unspoken," what is NOT the question to ask regarding the Africanist presence in American literature?

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"Why am I, an Afro-American, absent from it?"

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Alice Randall, Daniel Black, and Percival Everett are authors of what time period?

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Literature since 1975.

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In Toni Morrison's 1993 Nobel lecture, "The Bird Is In Your Hands,"Morrison says "We die. That may be the meaning of our lives. But we do language. That may be_______

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"the measure of our lives."

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In Toni Morrison's "Unspeakable Things Unspoken," what is the question to ask regarding the Africanist presence in American literature?

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"What intellectual feats had to be performed by the author to erase me from a society seething with my presence?"

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Which of the following was not a reason the organizers of the convention did not wish Truth to speak?

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They suspected that Truth would not speak well.

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In Equiano's discussion of life in his native African village, he mentions the term Embrenche. What does this term refer to?

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The ritual marking of high-status men in the community.

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What explicit assumption of Americans is this poem working actively to dispel?

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That Africans cannot be Christians.

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How does Truth respond to the argument that women should not have rights because Christ was not a woman?

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She points out that women had more to do with Christ entering the world than men did.

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Why does Equiano desire to be baptized?

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He is worried that he will be barred from heaven.

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When Equiano first encounters Europeans on a ship off the coast of Africa, how does he react to them?

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He is horrified by their brutality and fears they will eat him.

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In what verse form is On Being Brought from Africa to America written?

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Heroic couplets.

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According to the poem On Being Brought from Africa to American what brought Wheatley out of Africa?

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Mercy

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Why does the anthology present two different accounts of Truth's speech at the Akron women's rights convention?

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Truth could not read nor write.

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Equiano is kidnapped along with

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His sister.

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What reason does Truth give for why she is equal to any man?

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She can do as much work as any man in the audience.

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What effect did Truth's speech have on the audience?

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The entire crowd was wildly enthused by what she said.

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Who is the explicit audience of the poem On Being Brought from Africa to America?

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Christians

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Equiano is renamed Gustavus Vassa after which person?

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The king of Sweden.

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What is Equiano's reaction to his first sight of snowfall?

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He mistakes it for salt.

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Wheatley writes that those who view Negroes with a scornful eye think their skin color is _____.

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Diabolic.

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How does Truth reply to the minister who blamed all of the world's ills on Eve'ssin in the Garden of Eden?

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She admits that eve was at fault, but notes that since men have not yet fixed the mess she made, they ought to let women have a chance to do so.

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How does Truth compare women's and men's intelligence?

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She says women ought to be able to use whatever intelligence they have.

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What evidence does Wheatley provide that Africans may be redeemed?

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Her own conversion to Christianity.

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In Our Nig, why was Frado's mother, Mag Smith, first driven into her novel?

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She had conceived a daughter out of wedlock.

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Which of the Bellmonts proves kindest to Frado?

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Jack

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What reason does the narrator give for Mag Smith marrying Jim?

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Her destitution and loneliness.

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How does Frado come to live with the Bellmonts?

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Her mother tricks Mrs. Bellmont into thinking she will return for Frado, and then abandons her there.

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One day at the woodpile, Frado successfully evades an unjust whipping by Mrs.Bellmont. How does she accomplish this?

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She threatens to stop working for her altogether if struck.

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Douglass gives bread to local white children for what purpose?

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So they will help him read.

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What did Frederick Douglass know about his father?

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He was white and possibly a master.

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Which city does Linda call the City of Iniquity because it served as an organizational center for bounty hunters of escaped slaves?

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NYC

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What is Douglass's opinion of slave singing?

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It is done out of sorrow, not joy.

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Once Linda returns to New York to work for the Bruces, why does she fear she may endanger them?

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The Fugitive Slave Law makes it illegal to harbor escaped slaves.

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Dr.Flint tries to bribe Benny into revealing where Linda went when she escaped.Why doesn't his plan succeed?

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Benny has guessed, incorrectly, where Linda has gone based on Dr. Flint's travels.

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Harriet Jacobs writes her memoir using which pseudonym?

answer

Linda Brent.

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Who is the father of Linda's children?

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Mr. Sands, an unmarried white gentleman.

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Why is Mary unsuccessful at turning her schoolmates against Frado?

answer

Frado is much more likeable than Mary. On the contrary, she was self-willed, domineering; everyday reported mad be some of her companions.

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How does Frado respond to the taunts and jeers of those who wish to put her in her place at school?

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With jolly laughs.

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After Frado leaves the Bellmonts, she marries an abolitionist lecturer named Samuel.How does she support herself after Samuel dies of yellow fever?

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She weaves baskets and sells them door to door.

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To what two free states does Douglass finally escape?

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New York and Massachusetts.

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As a slave, Douglass is eventually moved to what major city?

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Baltimore

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What brutality does Douglass remember from his childhood?

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The beating of Aunt Hester.

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What happens to the three hundred dollars that Linda's grandmother saved from baking midnight biscuits?

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She loans it to her mistress.

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Encouraged by Aunt Abby and James to read the Bible and attend prayer meetings, Frado still has doubts about Christianity. Which of the following best describes her anxieties?

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She wonders whether blacks are allowed into white heaven.

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When Linda escapes from Dr. Flint, where does she hide?

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In her grandmother's attic.

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What does Linda tell Dr. Flint when he tries to force her to move to the secluded cottage he has built for their rendezvous?

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She says she cannot, because soon she will be a mother.

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Mr. Ryder frequently quotes ______.

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Poetry.

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Which of the following best describes Mr. Ryder's career trajectory?

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He worked his way up from messenger to stationery clerk in a railroad company.

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The wife of his youth implies that the Blue Veins are _______.

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Snobbish and favor lighter-skinned African Americans for membership.

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Why does Mr. Ryder host a ball for the Blue Veins at his house?

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To impress a woman whom he is planning to propose.

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How long has Liza Jane been looking for her husband?

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Twenty-five years.

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What does Liza Jane expect that her husband will be doing when she finds him?

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She believes he will be unsuccessful and expects that she will have to support both of them herself.

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The story implies that Mr. Ryder is attracted to Mrs. Dixon because _______.

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He admires her light skin and her superior social connections.

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In the Souls of Black Folks, what is the best synonym for what Du Bois calls double-consciousness?

answer

Racial schizophrenia.

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In Criteria what does Du Bois mean when he writes that white artists themselves suffer from this narrowing of the field?

answer

They are unable to present whites in unflattering portrayals.

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In the dialect poem A Negro Love Song, what do the words huh (lines 3, 5, and 17)and cose (line 23) mean?

answer

Her and of course.

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In the Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, what is the brand and who is referred to as them in the line: but there is nothing I would not suffer to keep the brand from being placed upon them.

answer

Black racial identity and his children.

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In the Damnation of Women, what is damnation of women according to Du Bois

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That women must choose between intelligence and motherhood.

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In the Meaning of Progress what does Du Bois suggests finally causes Josie's death?

answer

That a man she loved married another.

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In his review Two Novels, what is Du Bois's biggest problem with Claude McKay s novel Home to Harlem?

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It lacks a well-conceived plot and artistic unity.

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James Weldon Johnson claims that the literature and art produced by African Americans is universally acknowledged as

answer

Distinctive American products.

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In On the Coming of John what do the black and white Johns represent

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Racial segregation and conflict.

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In the poem Worn Out, what is the release the speaker seeks in line 24?

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From earthly life.

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Who was president of the United States (and therefore lived in the White House)when The White House was published?

answer

Warren Harding.

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In response to a door being shut against my tightened face, the speaker resolves to summon the courage and grace necessary to _____.

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Display his anger with pride and defiance.

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As she walks down the decent street of the white neighborhood, the speaker ironically describes himself as a _____.

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Chafing savage.

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The speaker describes himself, at one point, as sharp as steel. What has sharpened him?

answer

Racism

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What kind of power keeps the speaker from committing violence against his antagonists?

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God's power.

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What does the speaker vow to keep safe from the potent poison of his antagonist's hatred?

answer

His heart.

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The speaker describes multiple physical symptoms of discontent in the poem. Which of the following is not a rationale for why Claude McKay included these symptoms in the poem?

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McKay is hinting that perhaps the speaker's anger is part of a larger sickness.

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Claude McKay includes several veiled references to weapons and violence in the poem.Which of the following does not describe a rationale for including these references?

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They attempt to intimidate white readers by showing them what racism is like.

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Where did Zora first learn that she was colored?

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Jacksonville.

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To whom would Zora offer a Howdy-do-well-I-thank-you-where-you-goin' when she was a young girl in Eatonville?

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Northern white tourists bound for Orlando.

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How does Zora feel about being colored?

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Nonchalant- it doesn't bother her at all.

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When does Zora feel most colored?

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When thrown against a sharp white background.

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When does Zora feel it's an advantage to be colored?

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When she listens to Jazz.

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Does Zora feel less American because of her race?

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No

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The speakers in Hughes's poems are

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Male and female.

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Which of the following is not a reason the speaker gives in "Yet Do I Marvel" for why he cannot understand God's ways?

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He trusts that everything will work out for the best.

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Why does the speaker in Countee Cullen's "Yet Do I Marvel" compare himself to Sisyphus?

answer

Like Sisyphus, he must complete a difficult task over and over again.

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Judging from the poems included in the Norton Anthology, what musical traditions most influenced the cadence and rhythm of Hughes's poetry?

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Jazz and blues.

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Hughes draws much of his poetic vocabulary from _______.

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Everyday African American speech.

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Why does the speaker in Countee Cullen's "Yet Do I Marvel" compare himself to "tortured Tantalus"?

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Like Tantalus, he is unable to partake of his desires even though they seem to be just within reach.

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In "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," the speaker emphasizes

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The long history of black culture.

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Why does the speaker in Countee Cullen's, "Yet Do I Marvel" compare himself to a "little buried mole"?

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Like a mole, he struggles blindly, not knowing where he is going.

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What does the speaker in "Yet do I Marvel" find most "curious" about his situation?

answer

That God made him black and a poet.

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Hughes' tone in "I, Too" could best be described as _________.

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Proud and confident.

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What is the occasion for "The Weary Blues"?

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The speaker identifies with a skilled piano player.

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In "Theme for English B," the speaker directly addresses __________.

answer

A college instructor.

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The speaker implies that a "good, well-meaning, kind" God would expect him to sing songs of praise. Why can he not bring himself to do this?

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Since whites discriminate against blacks, his subject must be injustice and racism.

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Who can be said to be the first critic of African American literature?

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Thomas Jefferson.

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In The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man the mulatto experiences tragedy because he

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Longs to be an important black man.

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Charlotte Forten Grimke is best known for her?

answer

Journal

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Early African American literature can be described as"Resistance to Human Tyranny ," which authors can be described as presenting radical opposition?

answer

David Walker and Maria Stewart.

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During the Harlem Renaissance, what defined the "inner life" perspective on artistic production

answer

All of the above.

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Why was Wright intrigued by the prospect of reading H.L. Mencken?

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He had read unfavorable reviews of Mencken in Southern newspapers.

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When the protagonist is invited to give his graduation speech to a gathering of the town's leading white citizens, he is invited to take part in a battle royal before he speaks. Why does he object to fighting?

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He doesn't want to distract the whites from his upcoming speech.

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What effect did his grandfather's last words have on the protagonist?

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He thought of them as a curse.

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Which of his coworkers does Wright first approach to borrow a library card?

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Mr. Falk, an Irish Catholic.

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With what failing does Wright fault the Negro Communist agitators he hears speaking during the Depression?

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He believes they oversimplify matters.

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After being let go from the post office,what kind of job does Wright secure, from which he receives a new kind of education about black life?

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a. He worked, on commission, for a burial and insurance racket.

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How does the protagonist get out of the battle royal?

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He throws the match to save one of the whites from losing his bet.

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Immediately after Wright moves to Chicago, which group of intellectuals most enthralls him?

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The Garveyites, a group dedicated to the return of blacks to Africa.

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Why did Wright hide from his coworkers that he and his family were thinking about moving to the North?

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He knew their attitudes toward him would change if they found out.

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What does the protagonist's grand fathertell his family on his deathbed?

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That life is a war and he has been a traitor all his days.

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What did Wright gain from reading so many novels so feverishly quickly?

answer

A sense of life itself.

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Although the fighters have been blindfolded, midway through the fight the protagonist can make out the shapes of the other fighters. How?

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He sweats through the fabric until it becomes transparent.

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What gift does the gathering of leading white citizens give to the protagonist after the battle royal and his speech?

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A college scholarship.

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Which phrase does the protagonist accidentally say during his oration after the battle royal?

answer

Social equality.

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What has Sonny been arrested for at the beginning of the story?

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Selling and using heroin.

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The narrator waits a long while once Sonny is in prison to write him. He finally writes after what event?

answer

The death of his daughter.

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After Sonny and the narrator separately watch a prayer meeting break up, Sonny confides in the narrator what he had been through, and the narrator tries to find out if Sonny is still sober. Which of the following best describes the point the narrator was trying to make in their conversation?

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He suggests that drug use is self-destructive and that he doesn't want Sonny to die.

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How does the narrator respond to Sonny's playing at the end of the story?

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He buys Sonny a shot of scotch.

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After Sonny reveals to the narrator that he wants to become a jazz pianist, Sonny announces he wants to quit high school and join the army. What does the narrator prefer that he do?

answer

Move in with Isabel's parents and finish high school.

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The narrator meets a friend of Sonny's as he walks to the subway the day he learns of Sonny's arrest. What did Sonny and his old friend have in common?

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They were both addicts.

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What does the narrator (in the sonny passage) do for a living?

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He is a high school math teacher.

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What had happened to their father's brother? (in the sonny passage)

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He was killed in a car accident.

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Which of the following is not one of the complaints King provided in answer to the hypothetical question, "when will you be satisfied?"

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When black travelers aren't forced into segregated hotels.

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Which of the Southern states King singles out for dreams of future equality is mentioned particularly for its racist governor "dripping with the words of interposition and nullification"?

answer

Alabama

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King called for a new "army" to face the "marvelous new militancy" that had "engulfed the Negro community." What was unusual about that army, given the nature of his sermon?

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It consisted of both blacks and whites.

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In describing the "fierce urgency of now," King attempted to "remind America" that

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The blacks' demands for equality must not be slowed down or shelved.

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King began his sermon by describing the presence of his audience in Washington as an attempt to do what with the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence?

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Cash a check.

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Near the end of his sermon, King lists a series of mountains from which freedom shall one day ring. He begins with one set of mountains, then pauses and says,"But not only that," and provides a second set. What is the difference between the two sets of mountains?

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The first set contains mountain ranges in states that were part of the Union during the Civil War, while the second set contains famous mountains in Southern States.

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Inadvising civil disobedience and nonviolent demonstration, King asked his audience to meet "physical force" with what?

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Soul force.

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King delivered his "I Have a Dream" sermon in front of which national monument in Washington, D.C.?

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The Lincoln Memorial.

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When Lula asks him who he thinks he is, Clay responds that in college he used to think of himself as which famous figure?

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Charles Baudelaire.

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In Clay's monologue near the end of the play, what does he announce as his chosen profession?

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Poet.

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In Scene II, Lula suggests repeatedly that their entire conversation has been about ______.

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Clay's manhood.

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Clay mentions Charlie Parker and Bessie Smith as examples of black figures who became artists rather than murdering their white antagonists ( a whole people of neurotics, struggling to keep from being sane ). Which of the following best describes, according to Clay, a common message in their art?

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Kiss my black ass.

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Lula persuades Clay to ask her to accompany him to what event?

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A party.

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Where is Dutchman set?

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On a train.

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In Scene II, Lula tries to break through Clay's middle-class, assimilationist façade. What does she try to make him do?

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Dance sexily with her.

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Why does Lula suggest that Clay has no right to wear his suit and tie?

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Only whites have earned the right to wear suits.

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Walker dedicated "Everyday Use" to _________.

answer

Your grandmamma.

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On the first night Molly sits down to dinner at the boarding house, Seth declares they're all going to Juba. What is a Juba?

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An African ring-dance.

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Maggie was scarred when _______.

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The family's house burned down.

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How did Herald Loomis know Joe Turner?

answer

Turner put him in prison for seven years.

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After the Juba, Herald Loomis interrupts dinner to talk about a vision he has just had. What did he see?

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Bones walking on water.

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The story implies that Maggie is _________.

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More in touch with her cultural heritage than Dee.

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After Dee explains that she has changed her name, the narrator _______.

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Refers to her as both Dee and Wangero.

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The play implies that Herald Loomis will live with which of the women at the boarding house after he has remembered how to "sing his song," with Bynum's help?

answer

Mattie Campbell.

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Bynum has asked Selig to look out for a "shiny" man, bright "like new money." Which of the following best describes what he means by "shiny"?

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A man Bynum saw in a vision.

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As the play begins, Seth watches Bynum performing a ritual with an animal that he buys from Reuben, a young neighborhood boy. What is the animal?

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A pigeon.

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Seth makes pots out of sheet metal given him by Rutherford Selig, whom the boarders call a "People Finder." To what does Selig attribute his skill at finding people along his route?

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He comes from a family of slave traders and trackers.

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Wilson has written a major play about the African American experience for every decade of the twentieth century. In what decade is Joe Turner's Come and Gone set?

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1910's

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Why has Dee changed her name to Wangero?

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She prefers a traditional African name rather than a name derived from the Anglo-American tradition that oppresses African Americans.

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What does Dee intend to do with the butter churn parts and the quilts she wants to take from her mother's house?

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Display them in her own home.

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The story implies that Dee, as a child, was _____.

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Embarrassed by her home and anxious to rise in the world.

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