Slavery in the United States was officially abolished in ______________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which of the following statements about slavery is true ?

   A. Most slave children lived in two family homes.
   B. Slave owners did not allow their slaves to live as married couples.
   C. Slaves were given limited civil rights.
   D. Most slaves were not Christian.

2. In Chapter Three of Booker T. Washington’s Up from Slavery, Washington’s primary goal is to______________?

   A. Get an education.
   B. Get a job.
   C. To be clean.
   D. To be a teacher

3. Booker T. Washington’s message in Up from Slavery is_______________?

   A. Whites should pay reparations to former slaves.
   B. African Americans should acculturate to mainstream White culture.
   C. White institutions should reform to meet African American needs.
   D. African Americans will have to help themselves by becoming educated.

4. 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.

5. Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, an indictment of slavery ?

   A. Harriet Beecher Stowe
   B. Richard Wright
   C. Frederick Douglass
   D. Phillis Wheatley

6. I was somewhat unmanageable when I first went [to Master Covey’s], but a few months of this discipline tamed me. … I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon men, and behold a man transformed into a brute!” ?

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

7. 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 ?

   A. Seeing his mother die
   B. Watching a slave get beaten to death
   C. Watching his aunt get whipped
   D. Watching his dad beat his mother

8. 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

9. Which of the following is a ceremony in which a sovereign is officially crowned ?

   A. Investiture
   B. Invocation
   C. Gala
   D. Coronation

10. In the United States, Reconstruction_______________?

    A. Is the time period that followed the Civil War.
    B. Describes the rebuilding after World War I.
    C. Refers to the Civil Rights movement.
    D. Took place only in the North.