The Boy Without a Flag and They’ll Say, “She Must Be from Another Country”
Selection from Democracy in
Selection from The Souls of Black Folk
Mending Wall and Earliest Impressions
100
From the opening of the entire first paragraph, who are we led to believe that the speaker is?
An oppressed African-American slave
100
From “The Boy Without a Flag,” what country is the narrator’s family from?
Puerto Rico
100
Who published his observations of American Society in a two-volume work titled Democracy in America?
Alexis de Tocqueville
100
What example in American History did the author describe as a time when blacks and whites shared both sympathy for one another and generous fellowship?
When slaves were domestic servants to white families
100
In Mending Wall, what does the darkness that surrounds the farmer symbolize?
Ignorance or Archaic logic
200
What does the speaker compare being black to?
He compares it to being charged of having commit a criminal offense
200
From They’ll Say, “She Must Be from Another Country” the people who aren’t able to give their loyalty to fat old fools, crooks and thugs are referred to as?
Freaks
200
Where can you find people of all ages, all stations in life and all types of dispositions forming associations?
America
200
What term did the author use to describe the imaginary divide between whites and African Americans which prevented social and intellectual commerce?
The color line
200
In Mending Wall, who requests the repairs in the wall?
The narrator
300
Where is the geographic location of this dialogue
Georgia
300
From “The Boy Without a Flag,” what dreams did the father originally have when coming to the United States?
Becoming a writer
300
What type of government is weak if citizens are acting independently?
Democracy
300
What achievement did W. E. B. Du Bois obtain in his life that is the most significant in African American history?
First African American to receive a PhD from Harvard University
300
In Mending Wall, what does the narrator grow on his farm?
Apples
400
What is the profession of Henry McNeal turner before and after the civil war?
Minister
400
“They Say, ‘She Must Be From Another Country’” comes from a series of poems from what book?
“I Speak For The Devil”
400
What is the possible result if people in Democratic countries did not have the right or will to unite on political object?
A loss of independence and the start of barbarism
400
What were the inaccurate stereotypes of white people during the time period mentioned by the author?
They were narrow and prejudiced
400
In Earliest Impressions, what handicap does Jane Adams have?
A crooked spine
500
What's one thing that the speaker accuses the white man of fighting against?
The constitution, the organization of the legislature
500
From “The Boy without a Flag,” instead of reading what the narrator has written, what does the father do with the narrator’s stories?
Throws them in the closet
500
What important skill must people have to keep society civilized?
The Art of Association
500
What were the inaccurate stereotypes of African Americans during the time period mentioned by the author?
They were dangerous and insolent
500
In Earliest Impressions, what physical legacy did Jane Adams leave in the city of Chicago?