Analyze the most important difference between the slave relationship/marriages and those of the slave owners.

English 231 –                                                  The Escape short answer questions

Directions: For each of the questions below, provide a detailed answer, in roughly TWO solid paragraphs for each, making sure to include one specific reference (quote) from the text, that you then analyze, in each. Be sure to format and document properly and completely. Each answer is worth ten points.

1. Explain the significance of three character names from the play.
2. Analyze how Cato is or is not a sympathetic character.
3. Explore why it is important that the slave owners’ wives are portrayed as women jealous of female slaves.
4. Explain how the “Dandy Jim” song represents at least two different perspectives of America at the time of Jim-Crowe.
5. Analyze the most important difference between the slave relationship/marriages and those of the slave owners.