In what year was the Fugitive Slave Act passed ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which character in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” directly opposes the Fugitive Slave Law ?

   A. Senator Bird
   B. Mrs. Bird
   C. St. Clare
   D. Haley

2. Neo-Slave narratives are contemporary novels written about slavery. Toni Morrison’s Beloved is about the ghost of a baby the character Sethe murdered to keep her from being recaptured by their master. The opening chapter of the novel represents the neo-slave narrative by its________________?

   A. Discussion of race relations in the North and South.
   B. Condemnation of the plantation myth.
   C. Examination of the psychological damage of slavery.
   D. Insistence on desegregation.

3. Although Charles Johnson’s Oxherding Tales is based on his Buddhist beliefs, he meant the novel to be a reworking of an American genre, the slave narrative. In what way is the novel, despite its philosophical underpinnings, an exemplar of the slave narrative ?

   A. Its character’s movement from slavery to freedom.
   B. Its emphasis on Christian ideals.
   C. The novel’s sensationalist scenes of violence.
   D. Its didactic (teaching) tone of voice.

4. The following extract presents a suitable answer to the hacknied argument drawn by the defender of Slavery from the songs of the Slave, and is also a good specimen of the powers of observation and manly heart of the writer. The word hacknied is an old form of the word hackneyed. What does it mean ?

   A. Lacking in freshness and originality
   B. Saddened
   C. Double meaning
   D. Blue-eyed

5. “Left the house of the subscriber, bounden servant, Hezekiah Mudge—had on when he went away, grey coat, leather breeches, master’s third best hat. One pound currency reward to whoever shall lodge him in any jail in the province.” Hezekiah Mudge is a “bounden servant,” meaning that he is bound by contract to be a servant (essentially a willing slave) for seven years in repayment for____________?

   A. Freedom
   B. Escape from enslavement
   C. Transportation to the colonies
   D. Dropping charges for murder

6. Slave narratives were shaped by_____________?

   A. Captivity narratives.
   B. Abolitionist newspaper accounts.
   C. Folktales.
   D. African mythology.

7. Until recent years it was thought that Harriet Jacob’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was____________?

   A. Based on a New England captivity narrative.
   B. An anonymous narrative.
   C. Fiction written by Lydia Maria Child.
   D. Written by Jacob’s son.

8. 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.

9. Harriet Jacob’s slave narrative Incidents in the Life differs from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s abolitionist novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin in what way ?

   A. Stowe’s novel is sentimental.
   B. Stowe describes the treatment of slaves.
   C. Stowe describes the escape of slaves.
   D. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was used by abolitionists.

10. Harriet Jacobs wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl to show______________?

    A. That female slaves were escaping more frequently than men.
    B. How slavery was worse for men.
    C. How females were affected by slavery.
    D. That female slaves were more valuable than male slaves.