A. To describe the horrors of life on the Post-bellum plantation.
B. To explain his religious views.
C. To amuse the narrator’s sickly wife.
D. So they won’t interrupt his income from the neglected grape harvest.
Related Mcqs:
- Charles W. Chesnutt used vernacular speech to________________?
A. Explain how African Americans could not learn standard English
B. Make his written inaccessible to white audiences
C. To encourage feelings of pride in African American readers
D. Challenge American stereotypes about race - Some critics argue that the use of dialect by such authors as Paul Laurence Dunbar and Charles Chesnutt did all of the following except_______________?
A. Strengthened the African American’s place in the world of literature
B. Perpetuated stereotypes
C. Allowed African American authors to sell their works more widely to white audiences
D. Showed that African Americans couldn’t speak properly. - Uncle Julius is a character developed by______________?
A. Harriet Beecher Stowe
B. Joel Chandler Harris
C. Richard Wright
D. Charles Chesnutt - Why do you think the uncle was named the “Unnatural Uncle” ?
A. The Eskimo’s felt that family was important and to try to harm a family member was not normal or natural
B. The pronunciation of Eskimo names are impossible so the author decided that this was easy for the reader
C. All Eskimo myths name the antagonist the “Unnatural Uncle”
D. Since this tale is from the oral tradition, the characters had no names and when the myth was written down this is the name that was given - To whom does the Ancient Mariner tell his story in “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” ?
A. Coleridge
B. Dorothy Wordsworth
C. The Wedding Guest
D. Life-in-Death - The cautious old gentleman knit his brows tenfold closer after this explanation, being sorely puzzled by the ratiocination of the syllogism; while methought the one in pepper and salt eyed him with something of a triumphant leer. At length he observed, that all this was very well, but still he thought the story a little extravagant – there were one or two points on which he had his doubts. “Faith, sir,” replied the story-teller, “as to that matter, I don’t believe one half of it myself.” This passage exemplifies_____________?
A. Narrative frame
B. Hortatory sermon
C. Snaring
D. Jamming - Who write the story “Story Teller” ?
A. William Wordsworth
B. William Shakespeare
C. Thomas Grey
D. Saki - Why was the book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” written ?
A. as a pro- slavery argument
B. the author was a runaway slave
C. as a view point from Canada
D. as propaganda against slavery - What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word ?
A. Alliterative
B. Epic
C. Acrostic
D. Haiku - Julius Caesar was the ruler of Rome about____________?
A. 1000 years ago
B. 1500 years ago
C. 2000 years ago
D. 3000 years ago
