Who wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl ?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. Slave owners resisted abolition for what reason ?

   A. Slaveholders objected to losing leisure time.
   B. Slaves outnumbered non-slaves and might rebel.
   C. Slaveholders felt economic security rested on the system of slavery.
   D. B and C.
   E. A and C.

9. Slave narratives were shaped by_____________?

   A. Captivity narratives.
   B. Abolitionist newspaper accounts.
   C. Folktales.
   D. African mythology.

10. 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.