Uncle Remus and Bre'r Rabbit Week 14: American Tales - Assignments - Reading - Resources - Images

Background Quiz

The following is a list of statements which are either True or False. When you take the quiz, you will have 10 of these statements, chosen at random. You may take the quiz up to five times; your average score will be recorded in the Gradebook.

Apply the 80% RULE when you are taking quizzes for these classes. In other words: don't stress about trying to get 100% on these quizzes. The quizzes are here to make sure you are ready to go on to the next activity. If you get 80% or better, you are ready to proceed. If you get less than 80% you need to go back and do the reading again (read more slowly, take notes) and take the quiz again, aiming for at least 80%.

• T or F ? Harris eventually published over 250 stories about Brer Rabbit and his fellow animals.
• T or F ? Joel Chandler Harris gave public readings of the Brer Rabbit stories wearing blackface.
• T or F ? Julius Lester exaggerated the heavy dialect in his version of the Brer Rabbit stories.
• T or F ? Joel Chandler Harris published his first book of Uncle Remus stories in 1881.
• T or F ? Joel Chandler Harris was a physician by profession.
• T or F ? Joel Chandler also wrote fictional stories about the Uncle Remus character.
• T or F ? Joel Chandler Harris was born in Putnam County, New York.
• T or F ? Mark Twain used dialect in his novel Huckleberry Finn.
• T or F ? Julius Lester eliminated Uncle Remus from his version of the Brer Rabbit stories.
• T or F ? Joel Chandler Harris grew up in a wealthy slave-owning family in Georgia.
• T or F ? Joel Chandler Harris collected his stories from anthropological journals.
• T or F ? Disney has recently released the Song of the South for puchase in the United States.
• T or F ? Old Dan Tucker and Zip Coon were songs that belonged to the minstrel tradition.
• T or F ? Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn has been banned from many schools.
• T or F ? Joel Chandler Harris published his first Brer Rabbit story in 1849.
• T or F ? Song of the South is a Disney film based on Uncle Remus and the Brer Rabbit stories.
• T or F ? Harris denied any parallels between the Brer Rabbit stories and Native American stories.
• T or F ? Joel Chandler Harris published his first Brer Rabbit story in Harper's magazine.
• T or F ? African-American gospel songs were used as a covert protest against slavery.
• T or F ? Joel Chandler Harris was white.
• T or F ? Minstrel shows with white entertainers in black-face started after the Civil War.
• T or F ? Uncle Remus is a historical character whom Joel Chandler Harris knew in his youth.
• T or F ? Harris noted parallels between the Brer Rabbit stories and African story traditions.
• T or F ? Joel Chandler Harris was born in 1868.
• T or F ? Minstrel shows continued to be popular in the 20th century, e.g. "Amos and Andy."