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AP African American Studies: Symphony in Black: Music, Theater, Film, and Black History Education — Drill 21

Drill 21 · Multiple Choice · Unit 3: The Practice of Freedom

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AP African American Studies: Symphony in Black: Music, Theater, Film, and Black History Education — Drill 21 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Unit 3: The Practice of Freedom. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.

Practice AP African American Studies exam questions on Black music, performance, and the work of Carter G. Woodson in founding Black history education with this AP exam prep drill covering Unit 3 topics.

Passage

The following is from Carter G. Woodson's The Mis-Education of the Negro, published in 1933. Woodson, who earned the second Ph.D. in history awarded to an African American, founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (now ASALH) in 1915 and launched Negro History Week in 1926.

“No systematic effort toward change has been possible, for, taught the same economics, history, philosophy, literature and religion which have established the present code of morals, the Negro's mind has been brought under the control of his oppressor. The problem of holding the Negro down, therefore, is easily solved. When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his 'proper place' and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit. His education makes it necessary.”

Source: Carter G. Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro (Washington, D.C.: Associated Publishers, 1933).

Questions in This Drill

  1. Carter G. Woodson’s statement most directly supports which of the following conclusions?
  2. Carter G. Woodson’s founding of Negro History Week in 1926 can best be understood as a response to which broader condition in American education?
  3. “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” written by James Weldon Johnson and set to music by J. Rosamond Johnson in 1900, became widely known as the “Black National Anthem.” Which of the following best explains its cultural and political significance?
  4. Which of the following best compares the role of spirituals in nineteenth-century African American life to the role of jazz and blues in early twentieth-century African American urban life?
  5. Duke Ellington’s 1935 short film Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life was significant in the history of African American cultural expression primarily because it