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African-American literature, late 1700s-1800s

Total questions: 6

Worksheet time: 3mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which speech did we read by Frederick Douglass?

a)

"In the Land of the Free"

b)

"The World Needs All Kinds of Minds"

c)

"What the Black Man Wants"

d)

"What Is the Slave to the Fourth of July?"

2.

Slave ____________ by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Olaudah Equiano, and other writers told the harrowing real-life experiences of slaves' lives.

a)

Poetry

b)

Narratives

c)

Journalism

d)

Fiction

3.

Who was the U.S. Poet Laureate in the 1850s?

a)

Phillis Wheatley

b)

Sojourner Truth

c)

Olaudah Equiano

d)

None of these

4.

In class, we watched a video featuring several different people reading parts of Douglass's "What Is the Slave to the Fourth of July" speech. Who were the speakers?

a)

Historians

b)

Douglass's descendants

c)

Actors

d)

Academic scholars specializing in African-American studies

5.

The Trans-Atlantic slave trade brought over three million slaves to which country?

a)

Brazil

b)

Cuba

c)

Jamaica

d)

United States

6.

Until it ended in 1860s, the Trans-Atlantic slave trade brought approximately how many slaves to the United States?

a)

50,000

b)

100,000

c)

300,000

d)

300,500,000