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About This Drill
AP African American Studies: Négritude, Anticolonialism, and WWII — Drill 24 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Unit 4: Movements and Debates. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.
Sharpen your AP African American Studies exam prep with practice questions on the Négritude movement, Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, the Double V Campaign, the G.I. Bill, and global anticolonialism — essential Unit 4 AP African American Studies practice questions.
Passage
“My mouth shall be the mouth of misfortunes which have no mouth, my voice, the freedom of those who founder in the dungeons of despair. And above all, my body, as well as my soul, beware of assuming the sterile attitude of a spectator, for life is not a spectacle, a sea of miseries is not a proscenium, a man who cries out is not a dancing bear.”
— Adapted from Aimé Césaire, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, 1939
Questions in This Drill
- In the passage, Césaire argues that the role of the Black writer or intellectual is to
- Which of the following best describes the historical significance of the Négritude movement that this passage represents?
- The Négritude movement’s affirmation of African cultural identity was most similar to which of the following developments in African American intellectual history?
- During World War II, the “Double V” Campaign, promoted by the Pittsburgh Courier, called for
- Which of the following best explains why the G.I. Bill (Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944) widened racial economic inequality rather than narrowing it?