The Passing of Grandison Quizzes

The Passing of Grandison Quiz 1

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1 Who wrote "The Passing of Grandison"?

James Baldwin

Charles W. Chesnutt

Maya Angelou

William Burroughs
2 What form does "The Passing of Grandison" take?

Novella

Novel

Short story

Play
3 In what century is "The Passing of Grandison" set?

1700s

2000s

1900s

1800s
4 In what country or countries is "The Passing of Grandison" set?

Mexico

United States

United States and Canada

Canada
5 Who narrates "The Passing of Grandison"?

An unnamed first-person narrator

Dick Owens

An unnamed third-person narrator

Charles Chesnutt
6 Who is the protagonist of "The Passing of Grandison"?

Charles Chesnutt

Betty

Grandison

Dick Owens
7 In what decade is "The Passing of Grandison" of set?

1880s

1950s

1770s

1850s
8 What real-life historical legislation plays a significant role in the story?

Civil Rights Act

Head Tax

Fugitive Slave Law

None of these
9 From where does Dick get his wealth?

He is a self-made millionaire

His father

His fiancée

His uncle
10 What do other characters consider Dick's main failing to be?

He is lazy

He is too ambitious

He is handsome

He is proud
11 What happens to the white man from Ohio who is charged under the Fugitive Slave Law?

He is acquitted

He kills himself

He dies in prison

He goes on the run to Canada
12 Who is Charity Lomax?

Colonel Owens' mistress

Dick's sister

Dick's mother

Dick's love interest
13 In what state do the Owenses live?

Kentucky

Mississippi

New York

New Orleans
14 Where do the Owenses get their wealth from?

A factory farm in the city

A slave plantation they own

Investments in the oil industry

Banking
15 What is Dick training to become?

An activist

A teacher

A slavemaster

A lawyer
16 According to the narrator, what motivates Dick to free one of his father's slaves?

A feeling of hypocrisy

A sense of morality

Resentment for his father

A desire to impress Charity
17 What is Charity's attitude toward the young man who is charged with slave stealing?

She regards him as a fool

She is indifferent

She is in love with him

She regards him as a hero
18 To what does Charity attribute her abolitionist sentiment?

Her friends

Her Cherokee heritage

Her Quaker bloodline

Her Methodist bloodline
19 Which answer best defines an abolitionist in the context of the story?

Someone who campaigns against slave stealing

Someone who campaigns against alcohol

Someone who campaigns against slavery

Someone who campaigns against prisons
20 Who initially does Dick want to bring North?

Charity

His father

Tom

Grandison
21 What is Tom's role?

He is a lawyer

He is a personal attendant to Dick

He is a cook

He is a field laborer
22 Why doesn't Colonel Owens want Tom to go North?

He assumes he won't be able to protect Dick

He assumes the young slave will escape

He has a vendetta against Tom

He is eager to get rid of Grandison
23 Why does Owens propose the compromise of Dick bringing Grandison North?

He thinks Dick should have an older man with him for safety

He believes Grandison is abolitionist-proof

He wants Grandison to flee

He is in love with Grandison's partner and wants her to himself
24 When the reader knows of Dick's plan but other characters are oblivious, it is an example of what literary device?

Situational irony

Dramatic irony

Simile

Metonymy
25 What has Owens caught Tom doing that he disapproves of?

Talking on the phone to strangers

Reading a newspaper

Handing out abolitionist pamphlets in the fields

Burning books

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