Chapter 11

Quiz for Document 11-2: Slave Songs of the United States (1867) and Slaves Dance to Their Own Music on a Southern Plantation (c. 1852)

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Question 1

The existence of spirituals among the African American population of the American South in the mid-nineteenth century provides evidence for which of the following conclusions?A. Despite the power of the Second Great Awakening in the United States, enslaved Africans continued to worship traditional African gods and spirits.
B. Due to the power of the Second Great Awakening in the United States, most enslaved Africans converted to Christianity and embraced its traditional doctrines.
C. Enslaved Africans converted to Christianity, embraced its message of universal salvation, and used it to articulate their resistance to slavery.
D. Enslaved Africans feigned an attachment to Christianity and continued to practice their own religious traditions disguised as Christian worship.

Question 2

A common theme throughout the lyrics of the spiritual wasA. acceptance of current circumstances and hope for the future.
B. belief in the sins of the enslaved and a desire for forgiveness.
C. feelings of disaffected homelessness and longing for home and family.
D. righteous indignation and a desire for revenge.

Question 3

In the image titled, Slaves Dance to Their Own Music on a Southern Plantation, the instrument being used to provide the music for the dancers by the individual seated on the ground is likely aA. banjo.
B. guitar.
C. lute.
D. mandolin.

Question 4

Evidence provided by the lyrics of the spiritual, the title of the image, Slaves Dance to Their Own Music on a Southern Plantation, as well as the featuring of an instrument associated with African American and West African music and culture, best supports which of the following statements?A. African Americans were able to reject all aspects of white European culture and maintain an essentially African-based culture that was resented by white Americans.
B. America represented a cultural and racial “melting pot” that blended cultures from around the globe to create new ways of living for Europeans and for African Americans.
C. Religious conversion of enslaved people to Christianity during the period of the Second Great Awakening had inadvertently created a single Southern Christian culture regardless of race.
D. Whites Americans saw enslaved people of African descent as representing a culture apart from their own, while African Americans, to a degree, tried to develop and maintain distinct cultural expressions.

Question 5

The structure atop the tree behind the dancers appears to function as aA. child’s tree house.
B. lookout tower.
C. military structure.
D. slave quarter.