English Language Test Questions
1. Based on the readings in this unit, what do the readings in this unit reveal about diversity within the new nation? Use at least three specific examples from the reading selections. Your answer should be at least one complete paragraph.
Answer:
I have found many different and diverse things in the selections, one being how Equiano and Philis Wheatley were slaves for parts of their lives, and how they were treated like animals. There was also a change in how people saw religion and celebrated it. There was also how the world saw the blacks, the colored people were considered slaves and were not treated like human being at the time. The new nation was becoming an extremely diverse one.
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2. Throughout history, literature has been used as a form of protest. Choose two selections from this unit and explain why they can be thought of as protest literature. Discuss each selection in its own complete paragraph.
Answer:
I have found that in the writings of Olaudah Equiano the way he speaks of his experiences could be seen as a form of protesting against slavery. In his writings it tells the story of him being a slave since he was eleven years of age. How he was able to buy himself out of slavery at twenty-one, he is describing to the reader how terrible and wrong it is to have treated another human being in the way that he was. The second writing would have to be the letter that Benjamin Banneker sent to Thomas Jefferson. In this letter he was sending his writing of an almanac to secretary of state Thomas Jefferson about abolishing slavery. Banneker felt that Thomas Jefferson would be best because of his past, he felt that Thomas would agree with him and say that slavery was wrong on many levels. The way he writes, he uses examples and supports himself all while being respectful, and due to that, Jefferson changes his ways.
Answer:
I have found many different and diverse things in the selections, one being how Equiano and Philis Wheatley were slaves for parts of their lives, and how they were treated like animals. There was also a change in how people saw religion and celebrated it. There was also how the world saw the blacks, the colored people were considered slaves and were not treated like human being at the time. The new nation was becoming an extremely diverse one.
(15 points)
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2. Throughout history, literature has been used as a form of protest. Choose two selections from this unit and explain why they can be thought of as protest literature. Discuss each selection in its own complete paragraph.
Answer:
I have found that in the writings of Olaudah Equiano the way he speaks of his experiences could be seen as a form of protesting against slavery. In his writings it tells the story of him being a slave since he was eleven years of age. How he was able to buy himself out of slavery at twenty-one, he is describing to the reader how terrible and wrong it is to have treated another human being in the way that he was. The second writing would have to be the letter that Benjamin Banneker sent to Thomas Jefferson. In this letter he was sending his writing of an almanac to secretary of state Thomas Jefferson about abolishing slavery. Banneker felt that Thomas Jefferson would be best because of his past, he felt that Thomas would agree with him and say that slavery was wrong on many levels. The way he writes, he uses examples and supports himself all while being respectful, and due to that, Jefferson changes his ways.