Question: In Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem, “kitchenette building,” what is most important to the building’s inhabitants ?

• 1. Having a bathroom with warm water.
• 2. Following one’s dreams.
• 3. Getting food on the table.
• 4. Finding a mate.

Question: The narrator of Langston Hughes’s “Weary Blues” is describing__________________?

• 1. Negro spirituals being sung in the cotton fields.
• 2. The call and response of an African American church congregation.
• 3. African American toasting on a city street corner.
• 4. Blues being played in a Harlem bar.

Question: What unforgivable action does Mag Smith take in Chapter One of Our Nig ?

• 1. She tries to pass as White.
• 2. She washes clothes for White women.
• 3. She lets a man help her out.
• 4. She marries a Black man.

Question: According to Henry Louis Gates, Jr., reconstructing black people into the “New Negro” has been a matter of_______________?

• 1. Redefining black people in terms of a presence, not an absence.
• 2. Working against the existing racist stereotypes.
• 3. A struggle ongoing since 1619.
• 4. All of the above

Question: Neo-Slave narratives are contemporary novels written about slavery. Toni Morrison’s Beloved is about the ghost of a baby the character Sethe murdered to keep her from being recaptured by their master. The opening chapter of the novel represents the neo-sl

• 1. Discussion of race relations in the North and South.
• 2. Condemnation of the plantation myth.
• 3. Examination of the psychological damage of slavery.
• 4. Insistence on desegregation.

Question: Charles W. Chesnutt used vernacular speech to________________?

• 1. Explain how African Americans could not learn standard English
• 2. Make his written inaccessible to white audiences
• 3. To encourage feelings of pride in African American readers
• 4. Challenge American stereotypes about race

Question: Booker T. Washington’s message in Up from Slavery is_______________?

• 1. Whites should pay reparations to former slaves.
• 2. African Americans should acculturate to mainstream White culture.
• 3. White institutions should reform to meet African American needs.
• 4. African Americans will have to help themselves by becoming educated.

Question: For Booker T. Washington, racial uplift means_______________?

• 1. Rejecting all White assistance.
• 2. Allowing Whites to help AfricanAmericans to reach their potential.
• 3. Calling for violent uprisings.
• 4. Separating Blacks by income level

Question: The mask in Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem, “We Wear the Mask,” represents_____________?

• 1. The persona that the characters show the world.
• 2. The carved masks of African gods.
• 3. Characters from the Bible.
• 4. Who the narrator wishes to be.

Question: In Chapter Three of Booker T. Washington’s Up from Slavery, Washington’s primary goal is to______________?

• 1. Get an education.
• 2. Get a job.
• 3. To be clean.
• 4. To be a teacher