WorksheetsVoyages and Visions: American Narrative Tradition
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Which of the following is the BEST example of a narrative?
A newspaper article
A novel
an advertisement
a letter
"Equiano" could best be described as what type of narrative?
Travel
Captivity
Life in Colonies
Slave
Which narrative best embodies plain style?
La Relacion
Mary Rowlandson's captivity
Of Plymouth Plantaion
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
What is the process of giving the main ideas of a passage in a concise manner?
Retell
Paraphrasing
Summarizing
Annotating
What am I? I am a reference to someone or something that is well known from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or popular culture.
Illusion
Archetype
Allusion
Symbol
What is it called when a story (narrative) is told in sequential order? Choose the best answer.
Chronological
Chromatic
Sequenced
Asynchronous
What is the tone of the following passage: " The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
Confused
Confident
Defiant
Skeptical
What can we infer about the author's feelings from following passage:
“O, ye nominal Christian! Might not an African ask you, Learned you this from your God who says unto you, Do unto all men as you would men should do unto you?”
That he is mocking the "nominal" Christians
That he is angry at the "nominal" Christians
That he is angry about being enslaved
all of the above
Name the narrative: "The morning being come, they prepared to go on their way. One of the
Indians got up upon a horse, and they set me up behind him, with my poor
sick babe in my lap. A very wearisome and tedious day I had of it; what
with my own wound, and my child's being so exceeding sick, and in a
lamentable condition with her wound"
Of Plymouth Plantation
Mary Rowlandson
Equiano
Why might Rowlandson's narrative been so popular in the Colonies? Choose the BEST answer.
Because she overly romanticized the Native Americans
Because she wrote a narrative that many could have associated with themselves.
Because of the blood and gore in her narrative.
Because people were weird back then.
Is the text below an example of plain style or high style?
There was a proud and very profane young man, one of the seamen, of a lusty, able body, which made him the more haughty; he would always be contemning the poor people in their sickness and cursing them daily with grievous execrations; and did not let to tell them that he hoped to help to cast half of them overboard before they came to their journey's end, and to make merry with what they had; and if he were by any gently reproved, he would curse and swear most bitterly. But it pleased God before they came half seas over, to smite this young man with a grievous disease, of which he died in a desperate manner, and so was himself the first that was thrown overboard. Thus his curses light on his own head, and it was an astonishment to all his fellows for they noted it to be the just hand of God upon him.
plain
high
What do you think is the purpose of Sherman Alexie's essay, "Captivity."
To show that Native Americans have been held "captive" for generations.
To illustrate the similarities between Native Americans and the dominant culture
To illustrate how a dominant culture can influence a minority culture.
To illustrate the importance of culture.
Which BEST summarizes the text below?
"This was the comfort I had from them, miserable comforters are ye all,
as he said. Thus nine days I sat upon my knees, with my babe in my lap,
till my flesh was raw again; my child being even ready to depart this
sorrowful world, they bade me carry it out to another wigwam (I suppose
because they would not be troubled with such spectacles) whither I went
with a very heavy heart, and down I sat with the picture of death in my
lap. About two hours in the night, my sweet babe like a lamb departed
this life on Feb. 18, 1675. It being about six years, and five months
old. It was nine days from the first wounding, in this miserable
condition, without any refreshing of one nature or other, except a
little cold water."
Mary Rowlandson was taken captive by Wapanoug tribe in February of 1676 along with three of her children. She and her one child were wounded. Her child died within two weeks of captivity while Mary Rowlandson was forced to suffer another ten weeks of captivity.
Mary Rowlandson's child died.
Mary Rowlandson's baby died from its wound because her captors refused to give her child the medical attention it needed.
After nine days Mary Rowlandson's baby died from its wounds.
Which of the following is NOT a type of narrative mentioned as dominant in pre and colonial America?
Captivity
Slave
Historical
Travel
Life in America
In Equiano's narrative why does he feel that his captors are spirits? Choose the best answer.
He is amazed that they can navigate the ship.
He has never seen white people before.
He cannot believe humans could be so cruel.
He is afraid they are going to eat him.
