Question: In Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, living underground is symbolic of_____________?

• 1. The narrator’s attempt to stay hidden.
• 2. The narrator’s desire to be safe.
• 3. The narrator’s invisibility to society.
• 4. The narrator’s attempt to stay out of prison.

Question: Why was the “drop of blood” rule developed ?

• 1. To keep the slave offspring of White slave owners from inheriting.
• 2. To allow mixed-race children to get scholarships meant for African Americans.
• 3. To make sure mothers of mixed-race children got custody.
• 4. To keep White slave owner parents of mixed-race offspring from having to pay for their children.

Question: What was special about Zora Neale Hurston’s home town of Eatonville, Florida ?

• 1. It was home to the Harlem Renaissance.
• 2. Most of its inhabitants worked for White people.
• 3. It was primarily African American.
• 4. It was destroyed after the Civil War.

Question: Which is not a characteristic of Realism ?

• 1. Characters are not as important as plot.
• 2. Presentation is objective.
• 3. Ordinary language is used.
• 4. Events are plausible.

Question: Etheridge Knight’s “Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane,” what is Hard Rock’s function in the prison ?

• 1. To help the other inmates escape.
• 2. To win money by fighting.
• 3. To do what the other inmates were afraid to do.
• 4. To keep the Blacks and Whites separated.

Question: What does the term “passing” mean ?

• 1. The ability of an African American to live as a White person.
• 2. To do well on one’s schoolwork.
• 3. To leave one’s past behind.
• 4. To gain approval from one’s community.

Question: Alice Walker’s novels often explore the abuse experienced by African American women. What is the only abuse Celie does not experience The Color Purple ?

• 1. Betrayal by the educational system.
• 2. Betrayal by her sister.
• 3. Betrayal by her community.
• 4. Betrayal by a family member.

Question: In what way is Jane Toomer’s Cane an example of Modernism ?

• 1. Its fractured, collage effect.
• 2. Its insistence on plot.
• 3. Its focus on landscape.
• 4. Its focus on modern city life.

Question: In Nella Larsen’s novel Passing, why is Clare afraid to have another child ?

• 1. She almost died in childbirth with her first child.
• 2. She doesn’t want to lose her figure.
• 3. Her husband has threatened to leave her.
• 4. She is afraid it may have dark skin.

Question: In Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild,” The Tlick keep the humans happy by_______________?

• 1. Supplying them with narcotic eggs.
• 2. Letting them choose their own mates.
• 3. Freeing the males after they are hosts.
• 4. Paying them very well.