Informational Text (Frederick Douglass)

According to the information in paragraph 5, why was discovering the “The Columbian Orator” important to Douglass?

• Douglass enjoyed reading and could read this book often.

• Douglass wanted to be free and reading helped him feel free.

• Douglass felt that he would always be an enslaved person, but this text gave him hope.

• Douglass felt that he would always be an enslaved person, and this text presented a similar fate for another enslaved person.

Which detail from paragraph 6 best supports the idea that discovering “The Columbian Orator” was a key event in Douglass’s life?

• In the same book, I met with one of Sheridan’s mighty speeches on and in behalf of Catholic emancipation.

• These were choice documents to me. I read them over and over again with unabated interest.

• They gave tongue to interesting thoughts of my own soul, which had frequently flashed through my mind, and died away for want of utterance.

• What I got from Sheridan was a bold denunciation of slavery, and a powerful vindication of human rights.

What connection does Douglass make between the ideas in the ”The Columbian Orator” and his own situation?

• Douglass realizes that he is just like the enslaved person in the book.

• Douglass realizes that like the enslaved person in the book, he could use the power of the truth to gain his own freedom.

• Douglass realizes that he is like the enslaved person in the book, but he will never be free.

• Douglass realizes that human rights are important.

Who taught Frederick Douglass his Alphabet?

• The boys in the Alley.

• His Mistress

• His Slavemaster

• None of the above

How old was Frederick Douglass when he learned he was a slave?

• 10

• 9

• 7

• 12

Why did Frederick Douglass' Mistress stop teaching him his alphabet?

• It was illegal to teach a slave to read and her husband would not allow it.

• She no longer wanted to.

• The slave owner told her not to

• She was tired.