Frederick Douglass Test

The more young Frederick read about abolition, the more:

• He fought with other enslaved people.

• He wanted to go to college.

• He dreamed of escape.

• He wanted to meet President Lincoln.

Which of the following tells a way that Frederick learned to read and write?

• He started working for a newspaper.

• He traded food with some boys in his neighborhood.

• He joined the Underground Railroad.

• He went to school.

Young Frederick learned that abolition is the act of:

• Ending, or doing away with, slavery.

• Starting a civil war.

• Keeping the rights of enslavers.

• Giving women the right to vote.

When Douglass wrote, “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free,” he probably meant:

• Going to school meant you could be freed from slavery.

• Being able to read opens and frees your mind.

• Black people could be freed if they could pass a reading test.

• None of the above.

Soon after Douglass published his autobiography, he:

• Helped run the Underground Railroad.

• Organized uprisings in the South.

• Was captured and forced back into slavery.

• Left the country for a speaking tour.

Which of the following changes did Douglass’s writing and speaking help bring about after the Civil War?

• Slavery was abolished.

• People once enslaved became part of the Underground Railroad.

• All men and women were granted the right to vote.

• All of the above.

What influence did Frederick Douglass have on President Abraham Lincoln?

• He helped Lincoln write his autobiography.

• He wrote the Gettysburg Address for Lincoln.

• He convinced Lincoln to allow Black soldiers to fight for the North.

• All of the above.

Read these sentences: Douglass spoke so well that some white people refused to believe that he had even been enslaved. To prove he had been, Douglass wrote an autobiography. What describes the relationship between these sentences?

• The sentences describe steps in a process.

• The first sentence gives the cause of the second.

• The sentences compare and contrast two events.

• The second sentence gives the reason for the first.

What was the author’s purpose for writing this book?

• To explain the history of the American Civil War.

• To persuade readers to visit the Lincoln Memorial.

• To inform readers about the life and work of Frederick Douglass.

• To describe abolition.

What did Douglass do when he returned to the United States?

• He founded a newspaper.

• He went back to the South.

• He died of cholera.

• He was arrested for protesting at the White House.