Deck 36: Liberation and Equality

Question 1

The ________ took the first Africans to America in 1619,and during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,thousands of slaves were imported to the American colonies,especially those in the South.

A)Portuguese
B)Spanish
C)French
D)Dutch

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Ellison's novel Invisible Man is about which of the following themes?

A)a black family on the move from the American South to Detroit
B)the civil rights movement
C)colonial slavery and its societal consequences
D)an unnamed black man living in a basement room in Harlem

Answer 2

D

Question 3

________ is a form of piano composition and performance featuring highly syncopated rhythms and simple,appealing melodies.

A)the blues
B)jazz
C)ragtime
D)swing

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Explain the quest for liberation in colonial Latin America.

Question 5

The first black woman to be honored with the Nobel Prize in literature is

A)Dorothy West.
B)Alice Walker.
C)Toni Morrison.
D)Zora Neale Hurston.

Question 6

The long and bitter history of the Mexican Revolution,commemorated in the murals of ________,provides a vivid example of the repeated social upheaval experienced in Latin American countries in their attempts to cope with persistent problems of inequality,exploitation,and underdevelopment.

A)Anastasio Somoza
B)Rafael Molina Trujillo
C)Diego Rivera
D)Tiburcio Carias

Question 7

Between 1920 and 1940,the quest for racial equality and a search for self-identity among African-Americans inspired the ________,an upsurge of creative expression in the arts centered in a part of Manhattan occupied largely by African-Americans.

A)Nation of Islam
B)Great Migration
C)Harlem Renaissance
D)Niagara Conference

Question 8

Dr.Martin Luther King,Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail was addressed to which of the following?

A)the governor of Alabama
B)the membership of the SCLC
C)a group of local white clergymen
D)his wife,Coretta Scott King

Question 9

The quest for an autonomous Muslim state on the Indian subcontinent resulted in the creation of an independent ________ in 1947.

A)Bangladesh
B)Pakistan
C)Ceylon
D)Sri Lanka

Question 10

Possibly the most important contribution made by African-Americans to world culture occurred in the birth and development of that unique form of modern music known as

A)the blues.
B)jazz.
C)ragtime.
D)swing.

Question 11

One of the earliest revolts against colonial rule took place against the British Empire in

A)IndiA.
B)Pakistan.
C)Bangladesh.
D)Australia.

Question 12

Discuss the quest for gender equality as reflected in feminist literature and art.

Question 13

Apartheid was the system of strict racial segregation that prevailed legally in ________ until 1994.

A)India
B)South Africa
C)Honduras
D)Afghanistan

Question 14

Chronicle the role of ethnicity and ethnic identity in the arts.

Question 15

Which of the following joined the Nation of Islam while in prison,later using Muslim morality and social structure to encourage racial separatism in the United States?

A)Malcolm X
B)Dr.Martin Luther King,Jr.
C)Richard Wright
D)Frederick Douglass

Question 16

In 1992,AIDS activists assembled which of the following artistic media in Washington,D.C. ,to protest governmental inaction with regard to the AIDS crisis?

A)a sit-down tableau
B)a mobile
C)a giant quilt
D)hundreds of coffins

Question 17

Highlight African-American achievements in the visual arts and in music.

Question 18

"________," the stage name of a popular nineteenth-century minstrel performer,Thomas D.Rice,had come to describe anything pertaining to African-Americans,including matters of racial segregation.

A)Sleep n' Eat
B)Man Tan
C)Step n' Fetchit
D)Jim Crow

Question 19

Discuss the quest for racial equality and its proponents in the arts.

Question 20

While difficult to define,the musical concept of ________ may best be described as the practice of playing just off the beat-slightly ahead or behind.

A)the blues
B)jazz
C)ragtime
D)swing