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.
Related Mcqs:
- 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. - 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. - Frederick Douglass argued that slaves sang spirituals for all of the following reasons except______________?
A. To impress the horrors of slavery on listeners
B. To ease their pain
C. To pray for deliverance
D. To show that they were content in their work - What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Frederick Douglass ?
A. Indian Autobiography
B. Father of free verse
C. Father of American poetry
D. Most popular slave narrative - 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 - 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. - According to Dr. Frances Pritchett’s version of Shamsur Rahman Faruqi’s “The Historical Novel and the Historical Narrative”, what is the difference between a historical narrative and a historical novel ?
A. A historical narrative and a historical novel are the same thing.
B. A historical narrative tells only part of the story surrounding a historical event; a historical novel tells the whole story.
C. A historical novel focuses on providing the reader with only the central truth of a historical event, while a historical narrative attempts to tell the entire truth of a historical event.
D. Faruqi actually argues that historical novels do not exist. - 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. - 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. - The characteristic of Naturalism that is most present in the first chapter of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man is_____________?
A. The theme of man against nature.
B. The theme of man against man.
C. The theme of heredity.
D. Nature as an invisible force.
