marrow of tradition quiz

Question 1

Following the death of his first wife, Elizabeth, Samuel Merkell legally marries Julia, his former black servant.
True or false

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Although Mr. Delamare bequeaths $3,000 to Sandy Campbell, and a considerable sum to Dr. Miller’s hospital, neither receives anything after the old man dies because:

Answer 2

The will is never produced

Question 3

In comparison to old Mammy Jane, the young ‘colored’ nurse attending to the Carterets understands her working relationship to white employers as a matter of:

Answer 3

Wages

Question 4

This character is called “a degenerate aristocrat”:

Answer 4

Tom Delamare

Question 5

Whereas Chesnutt depicts Jerry Letlow as passive and obedient, he also includes other types of black characters, such as this militant victim of racism:

Answer 5

Josh Green

Question 6

Part of the historical material that makes its way into The Marrow of Tradition has to do with the successful attempt of North Carolina’s white population to circumvent the Federal Constitution by disfranchising black voters using this legal means:

Answer 6

Invoking the ‘grandfather clause’ prohibiting the right to vote

Question 7

Polly Ochiltree’s murderer robs her in order to:

Answer 7

Pay gambling debts

Question 8

Featured in Chesnutt’s novel as a complex, racialized form of entertainment–one that allows Tom Delamare to disguise his identity–is this folk remnant from the days of slavery known as:

Answer 8

Cakewalk

Question 9

As The Marrow of Tradition comes to its dramatic close, the resolution of the racial/familial conflicts that erupt in the novel’s most violent scenes appears to hinge, at last, on whether:

Answer 9

Dodie can be saved by a willing Dr. Miller

Question 10

The dubious rationale Southern whites most often gave for lynching and burning black men had to do with:

Answer 10

Protecting the sexual purity of white womanhood