Author Question: Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl told about __________. A) her long ... (Read 42 times)

Hungry! · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

What conclusion can be made about the presidential elections during the Gilded Age?

A) The People's Party took over 25 percent of the popular vote in the 1892 election.
B) The electorate was evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans.
C) Every candidate who won the popular vote also won the electoral vote.
D) Incumbent presidents who ran for a second consecutive term were reelected to office.

Question 2

Why did Frederick Douglass include his own picture and signature in his book, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave?

A) to protect himself from those who might try to pass themselves off as him
B) to prove that he was indeed African American
C) to accord with standard publishing practices of the day
D) to increase the authenticity of the work

Question 3

The occupants of the first fleets initially sent by France to Newfoundland __________.

A) fished for cod
B) hunted for furs
C) mined gold
D) gathered lumber

Question 4

The ostentatious costumes worn by guests, such as the one in the picture above, to Mrs. Alva Vanderbilt's 1883 extravagant ball reveals what sociologist Thorstein Veblen referred to as __________.

A) gilded wealth
B) the gold standard
C) conspicuous consumption
D) the New Woman

Question 5

Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl told about __________.

A) her long struggle to learn to write well enough to tell her story
B) the sexual predations of white Southerners on black women
C) events in the life of a fictional slave contented within the benevolent institution
D) her journalistic investigations into the lives of female slaves