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Quiz for America Compared: Bernhard, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach

Question

1. According to the author of this passage, a person’s social status in New Orleans in the 1820s was ultimately determined by which of the following characteristics?

Class

Race

Ethnicity

Marital status

Correct. The answer is b. Race was the critical determinant of social status in New Orleans in the nineteenth century. According to this author, it was impossible for a person with any amount of black ancestry to become a respected member of society, even if they had money, education, and white skin.

Incorrect. The answer is b. Race was the critical determinant of social status in New Orleans in the nineteenth century. According to this author, it was impossible for a person with any amount of black ancestry to become a respected member of society, even if they had money, education, and white skin.

Question

2. Which of the following is implied in this passage as the reason for Creole women’s “strong repugnance” to the “quarteron” women?

The quarteron women were less refined than their white counterparts.

White women could not accept that quarteron women were not slaves.

Quarteron women competed with white women for their husbands’ affections.

White women were jealous of quarteron women’s greater educational opportunities.

Correct. The answer is c. The author makes it clear that it was white women, not white men, who regarded quarteron women with such intense disdain, revealing that white supremacy was not the only reason for their attitudes. The author suggests that white women’s dislike of quarteron women stemmed largely from the threat the latter group posed to whites’ marriages.

Incorrect. The answer is c. The author makes it clear that it was white women, not white men, who regarded quarteron women with such intense disdain, revealing that white supremacy was not the only reason for their attitudes. The author suggests that white women’s dislike of quarteron women stemmed largely from the threat the latter group posed to whites’ marriages.