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.
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. - 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 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. - Slave narratives were shaped by_____________?
A. Captivity narratives.
B. Abolitionist newspaper accounts.
C. Folktales.
D. African mythology. - 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. - Usher can only stand types of noises in his acutely uncomfortable state. The narrator describes a number of impromptus that Usher plays for him on which instrument ?
A. The harp
B. The guitar
C. The ukulele
D. The violin - For a time the narrator comforts Roderick by reading and painting with him; one of Roderick’s paintings is described as follows: “A small picture presented the interior of an immensely long and rectangular vault or tunnel, with low walls, smooth, white, and without interruption or device. Certain accessory points of the design served well to convey the idea that this excavation lay at an exceeding depth below the surface of the earth.” What later event in the story does this picture foreshadow ?
A. The narrator and Roderick bury Madeline alive in a stone tomb beneath the mansion.
B. The narrator and Roderick drown Madeline in the tarn next to the mansion.
C. Roderick and Madeline escape the house via an underground tunnel.
D. The narrator and Roderick become trapped in catacombs beneath the mansion. - I took my visitors all over the house. I bade them search — search well. I led them, at length, to his chamber. I showed them his treasures, secure, undisturbed. The narrator is________________?
A. Helping Robin to search for his uncle
B. A detective
C. Leading the police to the scene of a crime
D. Helping the police to look for a letter - “Left the house of the subscriber, bounden servant, Hezekiah Mudge—had on when he went away, grey coat, leather breeches, master’s third best hat. One pound currency reward to whoever shall lodge him in any jail in the province.” Hezekiah Mudge is a “bounden servant,” meaning that he is bound by contract to be a servant (essentially a willing slave) for seven years in repayment for____________?
A. Freedom
B. Escape from enslavement
C. Transportation to the colonies
D. Dropping charges for murder
