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Why does Douglass say that learning to read was a curse rather than a blessing?

•  It showed that anyone can learn anything

• It showed his horrible situation, but not how to escape from it

•  Learning anything new is never a blessing

•  Learning to read has never helped anyone

The first person to help Frederick Douglass learn to read was

• the wife of Master Hughes

• the little boys he met at the pier

•    Master Hughes

•  the man who ran the bakery

Who was the mistress at first according to Frederick?

•  “a kind and tender-hearted woman”

•  “a terrible and dark-hearted woman”

• “a terrible and big woman”

•  “a kind and small woman”

Read the sentence from paragraph 2.

My mistress was, as I have said, a kind and tender-hearted woman; and in the simplicity of her soul she commenced, when I first went to live with her, to treat me as she supposed one human being ought to treat another

 

What is the antecedent for the pronoun she in this sentence?

•   soul

•  simplicity

•  mistress

•  human

Douglass giving bread to young boys and them helping him learn to read, is an example of what kind of     

   relationship?

•  take and leave

•  there is no relationship

• come and go

• cause & effect

Read the sentence from paragraph 3.

 

        Mistress, in teaching me the alphabet, had given me the inch, and no precaution could prevent me                             

        from taking the ell.

 

What does the idiom “taking the ell” mean in this sentence?

• an inch

• education

•  a foot

• the alphabet

 What word means to begin or start?

•  unabated

• apprehension

•  prudence

• commence

What word means that the proof of the claim is correct?

•    vindication

• unabated

•  prudence

The more Douglass read books such as The Columbian Orator, the more he

•  realized his value to his master.

•   enjoyed being able to read.

• became hopeful for his future.

•  came to hate his enslavers

What was Douglass's purpose for writing his autobiography?

• to inform readers about the life of a slave

• to express feelings about Master Hugh

•  to tell an interesting story from his past.

•  to make readers think writing is important