MUA Review: "Lasting Contributions" By Diana Childress

Which statement best reveals the central idea of the text?

• Africans secretly developed many of the traditions that would become important to the Americas.

• Africans struggled to pass their traditions down because they were forbidden from writing or reading.

• When Africans were brought to the Americas, their culture became an important part of many countries’ cultures.

• When Africans left their homeland, they forgot the cultural traditions that were important to their identity.

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Which quote from the text highlights the influence that African cultures had on the Americas?

• “communities made it illegal for enslaved people to learn to read” ( Paragraph 3)

• “Music was more than social entertainment.” ( Paragraph 5)

• “they took little interest in the ‘leftover’ African foods.” ( Paragraph 8)

• “Today, many African dishes are popular in the Americas.” ( Paragraph 10)

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Which of the following best describes how the author developed the central idea?

• by making comparisons to the customs and traditions the African people left and which they brought to America

• by first describing what the African people went through on the Middle Passage and then describing to the reader their influence in language/literature, rhythm/blues, and soul food.

• by giving direct examples of what the Africans went through on the Middle Passage

• by providing conflicting viewpoints on what the African people influenced when they arrived to the Americas

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Which supporting idea helps support the central idea that African culture became an important influence on the Americas

• The Africans brought new food to the Americas such as bananas, watermelons, yams and eggplants

• There were many Africans that did not survive the Middle Passage

• In the South communication amongst slaves was allowed

• Music was not embraced amongst the African people

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Read the sentence below:

"Because many communities made it illegal for enslaved people to learn to read, Africans would pass along the history and social values of their homelands through storytelling. In West Africa, musicians and storytellers, known as griots, had been doing this for generations. Many of the folktales that were handed down orally by enslaved people became part of mainstream American culture. Among them are the Uncle Remus stories, which the African-American poet James Weldon Johnson called “the greatest body of folklore America has produced.”

How do the underlined sentence contribute to the development of a key concept in this section.

• They develop the idea that enslaved people didn't need to learn how to read and write

• They provide an example of a folktale that was passed down through generations

• They introduce a contrast between history that has been written vs oral history

• They emphasize how the enslaved people would go to pass down their history through story telling

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