InterviewSolution
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During the Civil War, Truth bought gifts for the soldiers with money raised from her lectures and helped fugitive slaves find work and housing. After the war, she continued her tirade for the Lord and against racial injustice, even when old age and ill health restricted her activities to the confines of a Battle Creek, Mich, sanatorium. She died there on November 26, 1883.(1) What did Truth do for a noble cause ?(2) What did she continue doing even in her old age and in spite of her ill health ? |
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Answer» (1) Truth, during the Civil war, brought gifts for the soldiers with money raised from her lectures and helped fugitive slaves find work and housing. |
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From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with him. If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the ) world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back,and get it right sideup again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them. Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain’t got nothing more to say.(1) How does Truth motivate the women ?(2) What does she want to tell the men ? |
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Answer» (1) Truth says that if the first woman, i.e., Eve, God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down alone, why all these women can’t do something extraordinary . They should turn back and show their strength. (2) She wants to tell the men that women are not at all less than them. They are equal to them and they can do better. They must be allowed opportunity to show off their capacity. |
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Write whether the following sentences are True or False:(1) Sojourner Truth was an African freedom fighter and orator.(2) Sojourner used to speak Dutch language in her childhood.(3) John J. Dumont was a plantation owner.(4) Nealy owned a tavern in Kingston.(5) Mathias was a fisherman.(6) Sojourner ran away to New York with all her five children.(7) Sojourner raised money for fugitive slaves from her lectures.(8) Truth fought against social injustice.(9) Truth’s speech entitled ‘Ain’t I a Woman ?’ given in New York became very famous.(10) Sojourner had borne thirteen children.(11) Sojourner fought for women’s equality. |
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Answer» (1) False |
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Write about her welfare activity. |
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Answer» After settling down in New York, She started working for noble causes. She bought 1 gifts for the soldiers. She helped fugitive slaves to find work and housing. |
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What activities did Sojourner carry on ? during the Civil War? |
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Answer» During the Civil War, Sojourner bought gifts for the soldiers with money raised from helectures and helped fugitive slaves to find work and housing. |
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Who was Sojourner ? |
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Answer» Sojourner was a black American freedom fighter and orator. |
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Sojourner’s StruggleWho was Sojourner Truth?Where was she born ?How did she become a slave ?How was she treated as a slave ?Why did she run away to New York ?What were her welfare activities ? |
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Answer» Sojourner Struggle : Sojourner Truth was a black American freedom fighter. She was born Isabella Baumfree in Ulster Country, New York. She was a daughter of an African named Baumfree and a woman called Elizabeth. About at the age of 9, she was auctioned off to an Englishman – John Nealy. The Nealys hardly her Dutch jargon, therefore she was brutally punished for no reason. Eventually Nealy sold her to a fisherman who owned a tavern in Kingston, NY. Then John J. Dumont purchased her next. There she married and had five children. From there she ran away with only her youngest child and tried to settle in New York city. There through her friends, she came under the sway of a religious fanatic Mathias. During Civil War, she bought gifts for the soldiers and helped fugitive slaves find work and housing. After the war, she fought against racial injustice and ended her life in Battle Creek, Mich sanatorium on November 26, 1883. |
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Where was Sojourner born ? |
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Answer» Sojourner was born in Ulster County, New York. |
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What did Sojourner do after an emancipation act? |
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Answer» After the emancipation act, Sojourner ran away with only her youngest child in spite of the reluctance of her owner, Dumont. She got settled in New York city. There she worked at a menial job and through friends came under the sway of Mathias, a religious fanatic. |
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What did the emancipation act say ? |
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Answer» New York passed an emancipation act in 1827. It was meant to free slaves in America. |
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What difficulties did Sojourner face in her childhood? |
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Answer» Sojourner was a daughter of Dutch parents. About the age of 9, she was auctioned off to an Englishman named John Nealy. The Nealys understood very little of her Dutch jargon, so she was brutally punished for no real reason. Then she was sold to a fisherman. |
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What did Sojourner complain about her right as a woman ? |
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Answer» Discrimination between men and women should not be shown nor practised. She asks why women can’t have as much rights as men. She raises a poignant question if it was because Christ wasn’t a woman Christ had also come from a woman, so women too should have equal rights as men. |
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After emancipation act, her master set her free. |
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Answer» In 1827, after New York passed an emancipation act freeing its slaves, she prepared to take her family away. But Dumont began to show reluctance to this, so she ran away. |
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Sojourner was an English speaker from her birth. |
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Answer» Nealy sold her to a fisherman who owned a tavern in Kingston, New York. Here she acquired the idiomatic expression which came to mark her speech. |
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Write in brief about her belief for rights of men and women. |
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Answer» Sojourner firmly believed that the black people should enjoy all the rights that are being enjoyed by the Whites. Like white women, the black women also should be helped to get into carriages and lifted over ditches and to have the best place everywhere. |
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She gave all her income to her children which she got from her lecture. |
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Answer» During the Civil War, Truth bought gifts for the soldiers with the money raised from her lectures and helped fugitive slaves find work and housing. |
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Why was it a blessing for Sojourner s to live in New York? |
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Answer» Sojourner was greatly influenced by Mathias in New York. During the war, she bought gifts for the soldiers and helped fugitive slaves to find work and housing. Thus she turned to 5 work for a noble cause. After the war, with these virtues she continued her tirade for the Lord and against racial injustice. |
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