Excerpt from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

The author says that the slave masters often:

• Lied in order to make the slaves afraid.

• Embellished the truth.

• Were honest, but harsh men.

• Were honorable truth tellers

Standard RI1.1 has to do with Citing Evidence. What are some things to remember about this type of questions? (select more than 1 answer)

• Cite strong and thorough textual evidence

• Cite evidence to support what the text says explicitly and implicitly

• determine the central idea of a text

• analyze how the central idea develops over the course of a text

Which phrase from the text best shows the slaveholders true character according to the narrator?

• “Slaveholders pride themselves upon being honorable men”

• “if you were to hear the enormous lies they tell their slaves, you would have small respect for their veracity”.

• "they tell their slaves of the runaways they have seen, and describe them to be in the most deplorable condition”

• None of these answers are correct.

All of the details below support the idea that the slave masters lied to their slaves about the North, EXCEPT

• They said that runaway slaves seen were living in horrible conditions

• Slave masters said slaves that had escaped wanted to return to slavery and were starving

• That friends of their slaves that had gone away were longing to return to their kind masters

• Slave masters told slaves they would have better lives in the north

Standard RI1.2 has to do with determining themes and their development What are some things to remember about this type of questions? (select more than 1 answer)

• Cite strong and thorough textual evidence

• Cite evidence to support what the text says explicitly and implicitly

• determine the central idea of a text

• analyze how the central idea develops over the course of a text

This text is written in what point of view?

• First person

• Second Person

• Third Person

• Impossible to determine

The author claims that the black man is “inferior” due to all of the following except:

• He is forced to live in ignorance because of white man’s cruelty

• He is less capable of learning

• He is tortured by whipping

• Fear of bloodhounds

Why is Mr. Litch an interesting neighbor to include first in a sketch of neighboring slave owners?

• He was uneducated and ill bred, which is different from how slave owners are usually portrayed.

• His extreme cruelty

• He had a huge number of slaves

• All of the above

Standard RI1.3 has to do with analyzing complex ideas and explaining how they development What are some things to remember about this type of questions? (select more than 1 answer)

• Look for connections in ideas or events

• Cite evidence to support what the text says explicitly and implicitly

• Analyze how the author unfolds ideas or events

• analyze how the central idea develops over the course of a text

What is the purpose of this text?

• To show that slavery isn’t so bad

• To portray the atrocities of slavery from the perspective of one slave girl

• To abolish slavery

• To show how easy slavery really was