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How does Grimke refer to the soldiers who are on alert guarding Anthony Burns, a runaway who was being transported back to slavery?

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a. Patriotic soldiers

b. Protectors of Democracy

c. Minions of the South

d. None of the above

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What is Grimke alluding to when she says that “Massachusetts has once again been disgraced…she has showed her submissions to the slave power”?

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a. Massachusetts wanted to maintain peace w/ the Southern Confederacy

b. Massachusetts was afraid the South would send troops to retaliate for not transporting a fugitive back to slavery

c. Both A. and B.

d. None of the above

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In Harper’s poem, The Slave Auction, when she says “bosoms rudely forced to part”, what is she referring to?

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a. Metaphor for people falling out of love with each other

b. Family members being separated because they are sold off to different bidders

c. Both A. and B.

d. None of the above

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In Harper’s poem, The Slave Mother, when she states “For Him a mother’s pain/He is not hers, although her blood/Is coursing through his veins!”, what is she alluding to?

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a. A slave mother has no legal right to her son

b. A slave mother feels sorry a boy she has raised as her own son

c. Both A. and B.

d. None of the above

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In the poem, Bury Me in a Free Land, why does Harper ask to be buried in a free land?

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a. In death she believes she could not rest in a slave country

b. enslaved people would pass by her gravesite still in fear and terror from slavery

c. blood hounds would capture runaways and fugitives trying to flee from slavery

d. All of the above

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In Harper’s poem, Learning to Read, when she says “knowledge didn’t agree with slavery”, what is she talking about here?

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a. It was illegal for enslaved people to read

b. White people who participated in maintaining and preserving slavery opposed enslaved people to read

c. Both A. and B.

d. None of the above

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In the same poem, when Harper mentions “The Yankee Teachers [came] down” and the “Rebs did sneer and frown”, who is she referring to?

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a. Yankees were Northerners who wanted to help Black slaves read

b. Rebs were Southerners who were against Black slaves reading

c. Yankees were the British soldiers

d. Both A. and B.

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The Black National Anthem, Lift Every Voice and Sing was written to celebrate which president?

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a. George Washington

b. Andrew Jackson

c. Thomas Jefferson

d. Abraham Lincoln

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What did the Black National Anthem, Lift Every Voice and Sing mean to the African American community?

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a. It provided inspiration

b. It raised self-esteem

c. It instilled hope

d. All of the above. Note to u it’s based on this Read Pgs. 85-100, 107-108: Charlotte Forten Grimke’s From the Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimke; Frances E.W. Harper’s “The Slave Auction”, “The Slave Mother”, “Bury Me in a Free Land”, “Learning to Read”, “President Lincoln’s Proclamation of Freedom”; James Weldon Johnson’s “Lift Every Voice and Sing/The National Black Anthem”