As a boy, Frederick Douglass witnesses a scene that mortifies him and brings him face to face for the first time with the horrors of slavery. What is it ?

Related Mcqs:

1. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Frederick Douglass ?

   A. Indian Autobiography
   B. Father of free verse
   C. Father of American poetry
   D. Most popular slave narrative

2. Frederick Douglass argued that slaves sang spirituals for all of the following reasons except______________?

   A. To impress the horrors of slavery on listeners
   B. To ease their pain
   C. To pray for deliverance
   D. To show that they were content in their work

3. Which characteristic of the slave narrative did Frederick Douglass include in the first chapter of his Narrative ?

   A. Narration of a deserved punishment.
   B. Depictions of a beautiful rural environment.
   C. Descriptions of the kinds of food and clothing slaves were given.
   D. The author’s father is often a white man.

4. “A MANUSCRIPT was communicated to me during my travels in Italy, which was copied from the archives of the Cenci Palace at Rome, and contains a detailed account of the horrors which ended in the extinction of one of the noblest families of that city during the Pontificate of Clement VIII, in the year 1599.” All of the following state why this quotation from Perce Shelley’s “The Cenci” represents the Gothic EXCEPT_____________?

   A. The placement of the action in the past and in a foreign country
   B. The grandiose threatening setting that requires ingenious stagecraft
   C. The focus on wrongdoing at the highest level of authority
   D. The use of real historical resources by Shelley for the foundation of his play

5. Which of the following statements best characterizes Georgia Douglass Johnson’s poem “Black Woman” ?

   A. This poem focuses primarily on the different experiences of black and white women.
   B. This poem describes the relationship between a black woman and her child.
   C. This poem is a conversation between a black woman and a child who is not yet born.
   D. The poem is a conversation between a black woman and her ancestors.

6. It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of this picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling, and gazed down – but with a shudder even more thrilling than before – upon the re-modelled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly tree-stems, and the vacant eyelike windows. What is the meaning of the word tarn? Veldu eitt ?

   A. A bird
   B. A small mountain lake
   C. A wide river
   D. A high cliff

7. What does George Harris’ master demand of him that prompts him to plan his escape ?

   A. Relocate to Louisiana
   B. Punish another slave
   C. Abandon his faith
   D. Marry another woman

8. I knew him, however, as both mathematician and poet, and my measures were adapted to his capacity, with reference to the circumstances by which he was surrounded. I knew him as a courtier, too, and as a bold intriguant. Such a man, I considered, could not fail to be aware of the ordinary political modes of action. Who is speaking ?

   A. Brown
   B. Brom Bones
   C. Rip
   D. Dupin

9. Mr. Covey entered the stable with a long rope; and just as I was half out of the loft, he caught hold of my legs, and was about tying me. As soon as I found what he was up to, I gave a sudden spring, and as I did so, he holding to my legs, I was brought sprawling on the stable floor. Mr. Covey seemed now to think he had me, and could do what he pleased; but at this moment—from whence came the spirit I don’t know—I resolved to fight; and, suiting my action the resolution, I seized Covey hard by the throat, and as I did so, I rose. He held on to me, and I to him. … He trembled like a leaf. …We were at it for nearly two hours. Covey at length let me go, puffing and blowing at a great rate, saying that if I had not resisted, he would not have whipped me half so much. The truth was, that he had not whipped me at all. I considered him as getting entirely the worst end of the bargain; for he had drawn no blood from me, but I had from him_____________?

   A. Fredrick Douglass
   B. John Winthrop
   C. Benjamin Frankin
   D. William Apess

10. Which scene happens first chronologically ?

    A. Satan and the devils rise up from the lake in Hell
    B. The Son is chosen as God’s second-incommand
    C. God and the Son create the universe
    D. The angels battle in Heaven