Exam 1

Question 1

“On being brought from Africa to America”

Answer 1

Phyllis Wheatley

Question 2

Me and My Captain - Got One Mind for the White Folks to See

Answer 2

Roland L. Freeman

Question 3

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Answer 3

Harriot Jacobs

Question 4

“Douglass”

Answer 4

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Question 5

“Frederick Douglass”

Answer 5

Robert Hayden

Question 6

“The Wife of His Youth”

Answer 6

Charles W. Chestnutt

Question 7

Dinah Kneading Dough

Answer 7

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Question 8

A Negro Love Song

Answer 8

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Question 9

We Wear the Mask

Answer 9

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Question 10

“I Hear America Singing”

Answer 10

Walt Whitman

Question 11

Mother to Son

Answer 11

Langston Hughes

Question 12

The Weary Blues

Answer 12

Langston Hughes

Question 13

I, Too

Answer 13

Langston Hughes

Question 14

Song For a Dark Girl

Answer 14

Langston Hughes

Question 15

Hellhound on my trail

Answer 15

robert johnson

Question 16

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Answer 16

Langston Hughes

Question 17

If We Must Die

Answer 17

Claude McKay

Question 18

Yet Do I Marvel

Answer 18

Countee Cullen

Question 19

Incident

Answer 19

Countee Cullen

Question 20

Theme

Answer 20

abstract, underlying meaning of a work

Question 21

Possible theme of I Know Moon Rise

Answer 21

the desire for rest and to reunite with a loved one taken from life will be achieved through death

Question 22

Standard Slave Narrative Structure

Answer 22

1. brief time of innocence (truly a child)
2. boy made into slave (experice dehumanization)
3. rejection of slave identity (slave becomes man)
4. escape North (re-naming of self)
5. commitment to abolitionist efforts

Question 23

motif

Answer 23

any reoccurring element in a work of literature