A. Captivity narratives.
B. Abolitionist newspaper accounts.
C. Folktales.
D. African mythology.
Related Mcqs:
- 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. - Why was it important that slave narratives have a title page that claimed either that the narrative was written by the narrator himself (or his words were recorded by someone close to him, preferably white) ?
A. So the author could get paid.
B. In order for people to believe the events in the narratives.
C. So that slave owners could refute the events in the narratives.
D. So that the author could be assured he wouldn’t be recaptured. - 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. - Which twelfth-century poet or poets were indebted to Breton storytellers for their narratives ?
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. Marie de France
C. Chr´tien de Troyes
D. b and c only - Which twelfth-century poet or poets were indebted to Breton storytellers for their narratives ?
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. Marie de France
C. Chrétien de Troyes
D. b and c only - In Chapter XV of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, where did Linda hide ?
A. Under the floorboards.
B. With a friend.
C. In the stables.
D. In a remote cabin. - 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. - Who wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl ?
A. Lucy Terry
B. William Wells Brown
C. Harriet Wilson
D. Harriet Jacobs - 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. - 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.
