I know that many say that they are willing, perhaps the majority of the people, that we should enjoy our rights and privileges as they do. If so, I would ask why are not we protected in our persons and property throughout the Union? Is it not because there reigns in the breast of many who are leaders, a most unrighteous, unbecoming and impure black principle, and as corrupt and unholy as it can be–while these very same unfeeling, self-esteemed characters pretend to take the skin as a pretext to keep us from our unalienable and lawful rights? I would ask you if you would like to be disfranchised from all your rights, merely because your skin is white, and for no other crime? I’ll venture to say, these very characters who hold the skin to be such a barrier in the way, would be the first to cry out, injustice! Awful injustice! ?

Related Mcqs:

1. I ask: Is it not the case that everybody that is not white is treated with contempt and counted as barbarians? And I ask if the word of God justifies the white man in so doing. When the prophets prophesied, of whom did they speak? When they spoke of heathens, was it not the whites and others who were counted Gentiles? And I ask if all nations with the exception of the Jews were not counted heathens. This passage exemplifies________________?

   A. Jamming
   B. Snaring
   C. Hortatory sermon
   D. Framing

2. Milton’s “unholy trinity” of characters includes_______________?

   A. Error, Temptation, and Satan
   B. Sin, Death and Temptation
   C. Sin, Temptation, and Satan
   D. Satan, Sin, and Death

3. How does this quotation from Behn’s Oroonoko most suggest its status as an early novel: “I do not pretend, in giving you the history of this Royal Slave, to entertain my reader with adventures of a feigned hero, whose life and fortunes fancy may manage at the poet’s pleasure.” ?

   A. It focuses on a royal hero.
   B. It denies being imagined in favor of claims of realism.
   C. It focuses on adventures.
   D. It connects to poetry.

4. Gerald Graff’s “They Say, I Say” encourages students to become______________?

   A. passive readers and critics of literary texts.
   B. involved in critical conversations about literary texts.
   C. capable of realizing that the viewpoints of some critics are more important than others.
   D. aware that Hamlet is a remarkable work of literature.

5. Crime was ardently followed by punishment. Elizabethans had devised various ways to fine, humiliate, torture, and kill offenders. Which crime was punishable by death ?

   A. Skipping church on Sunday
   B. A woman screaming at her husband in public
   C. Stealing a horse
   D. Public drunkenness

6. My present business,” continued he, speaking with lofty confidence, “is merely to inquire my way to the dwelling of my [relative].” … There was a sudden and general movement in the room, which Robin interpreted as expressing the eagerness of each individual to become his guide. This passage exemplifies____________?

   A. Jamming
   B. Ambiguity
   C. Snaring
   D. Foregrounding

7. She was a blooming lass of fresh eighteen, plump as a partridge, ripe and melting and rosy-cheeked as one of her father’s peaches, and universally famed, not merely for her beauty, but her vast expectations. . . . She wore ornaments of pure yellow gold to set off her charms, and a provokingly short petticoat to display the prettiest foot and ankle in the country round. This is_______________?

   A. Faith
   B. Madeline
   C. Magawisca
   D. Katrina

8. When the prophets prophesied, of whom did they speak? When they spoke of heathens, was it not the whites and others who were counted Gentiles? And I ask if all nations with the exception of the Jews were not counted heathens. The author of this passage was_______________?

   A. A slave
   B. A Transcendentalist
   C. The son of itinerant actors
   D. An indentured servant

9. One purpose of LITERARY CRITICISM is described below: A formalist approach might enable us to choose between a reading which sees the dissolution of society in Lord of the Flies as being caused by too strict a suppression of the “bestial” side of man and one which sees it as resulting from too little suppression. We can look to the text and ask: What textual evidence is there for the suppression or indulgence of the “bestial” side of man? Does Ralph suppress Jack when he tries to indulge his bestial side in hunting? Does it appear from the text that an imposition of stricter law and order would have prevented the breakdown? Did it work in the “grownup” world of the novel? What purpose does this prescribe to ?

   A. To help resolve a question, problem, or difficulty in the reading.
   B. To help decide which is the better of two conflicting readings.
   C. To enable to form judgments about literature.
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

10. In “Ode to the West Wind,” why does Shelley ask the wind to “make me thy lyre” ?

    A. To help drive his ideas across the universe
    B. To help him reach the afterlife
    C. To help him hear nature’s music
    D. To help him start a new revolutionary war