American Lit 2 Unit III Test (NEMCC) Questions With Complete Solutions

American Lit 2 Unit III Test (NEMCC) Questions With
Complete Solutions

A common motif during the First Wave of the Southern
Renaissance includes ___________. Correct Answer racial
inequality

Choose the best word to describe Southern Gothic literature.
Correct Answer macabre

Christ is a symbol for ____________. Correct Answer
African-Americans who unjustly suffered

During the early years of the 20th century, the U.S.'s largely
agrarian society began to move _________. Correct Answer
to urban areas

Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi. Correct
Answer True

Faulkner's fictional setting is called Correct Answer
Yoknapatawpha

From a young age, whose death greatly affected Zora Neale
Hurston? Correct Answer Her mother

How does Sykes plan to kill Delia? Correct Answer plant a
snake in her washingbasket

, Hughes wrote both pridefully and politically about the
experience of working-class African Americans. Correct
Answer True

Hurston wrote about race in a political manner. Correct Answer
False

In an ironic twist of fate, who is killed? Correct Answer Sykes

Langston Hughes, one of the most prolific writers of the Harlem
Renaissance, aimed to bring to light the experiences of African-
Americans in a way no other writer had. Correct Answer True

Many of Faulkner's novels relied on multiple narrators, which
was common in Modernism. Correct Answer True

Mary is a symbol for __________. Correct Answer African-
American mothers who cry out against injustice but are silenced

Mississippi native William Faulkner is the most important figure
in the Southern Renaissance. Correct Answer True

Of what nature are the symbols Langston Hughes uses? Correct
Answer religious

One of the most prolific writers of the Southern Renaissance,
who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949, was
___________. Correct Answer William Faulkner