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Grade 12 African-American Literature
A theme common to African literature is:
  1. assimilation
  2. civil wars
  3. language conflicts
  4. immigration
Grade 12 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
In Incidents of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs argued freedom was harder to achieve for slave women because:
  1. they had children
  2. they were need for housework
  3. they were hard workers
  4. they lived longer
Grade 12 African-American Literature
                     is the author of The Souls of Black Folk and the founder of the NAACP.
  1. Fredrick Douglas
  2. W.E.B DuBois
  3. Paul Dunbar
  4. Booker T. Washington
Grade 12 African-American Literature
Harriet Jacobs'                                                    is the most comprehensive biography of an African American woman prior to the Civil War.
  1. The Souls of Black Folk
  2. An Address to the Negroes of the State of New York
  3. Raisin in the Sun
  4. Incidents of a Slave Girl
Grade 12 African-American Literature
The first writings by blacks in America was autobiographical and became known as the:
  1. African folktale
  2. Slave Myth
  3. Slave Narrative
  4. African Story
Grade 12 The Color of Water CCSS: CCRA.R.2, RL.11-12.2
Which word sums up the theme of the novel?
  1. Invisibility
  2. Identity
  3. Family
  4. Racism
Grade 12 A Lesson Before Dying
Jefferson killed grope.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 12 A Lesson Before Dying
Jefferson called Miss Emma what name?
  1. Nannan
  2. Miss Emma
  3. Mr. Oscar
  4. Mammy
Grade 12 Invisible Man CCSS: CCRA.R.2, RL.11-12.2
What is the focus of Invisible Man?
  1. Black identity
  2. White identity
  3. Sense of self
  4. Finding family
Grade 12 A Lesson Before Dying
Who will give the date for the execution?
  1. Mayor
  2. Governor
  3. Judge
  4. The KKK
Grade 12 Invisible Man CCSS: CCRA.R.3, RL.11-12.3
Which African-American leader was most like Ras?
  1. Martin Luther King Jr.
  2. Sojourner Truth
  3. Jesse Jackson
  4. Malcolm X
Grade 12 Invisible Man CCSS: CCRA.R.6, RL.11-12.6
Which movement does the narrator seem to be most against?
  1. African-American identity
  2. Equality
  3. Black pride
  4. Women's rights
Grade 12 A Lesson Before Dying
Miss Emma was in her early to mid...
  1. 50's
  2. 90's
  3. 70's
  4. 20's
Grade 12 A Lesson Before Dying
What was the sentence given to Jefferson?
  1. Life
  2. Hanging
  3. Death by electrocution
  4. 25 to life
Grade 12 Invisible Man CCSS: CCRA.R.3, RL.11-12.3
What does Jack's glass eye symbolize?
  1. His blindness to the Brotherhood's goals and mission
  2. His blindness towards racism and the attitudes of whites
  3. His blindness towards labels and what others think of him
  4. His blindness and inability to see in real life
Grade 12 Invisible Man CCSS: CCRA.R.3, RL.11-12.3
What is one thing the reader never knows about the narrator?
  1. His likes and dislikes
  2. Where he lives
  3. His name
  4. Who he knows
Grade 12 A Lesson Before Dying
Miss Emma is Jefferson's godmother.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 12 Invisible Man
Invisible Man would most likely be classified as...
  1. A protest novel
  2. A bildungsroman
  3. An autobiography
  4. A historical account
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