The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

How did the mistress's behavior change over time?

• She became more nurturing

• She became indifferent

• She became more compassionate

• She became fierce and cruel

What did the mistress believe about education and slavery?

• Slavery was necessary for education

• Education could end slavery

• They were incompatible

• They were compatible

What did the mistress teach the narrator despite her efforts to halt his learning?

• Science

• History

• The alphabet

• Mathematics

What was the narrator determined to learn despite the mistress's efforts?

• How to write

• How to speak

• How to count

• How to read

What could not deter the narrator from his quest to learn how to read?

• The mistress's efforts to halt his learning

• The mistress's monitoring

• The mistress's anger

• The mistress's transformation

What was the narrator's reaction to the mistress's efforts to halt his learning?

• He gave up

• He became discouraged

• He became determined

• He became indifferent

Douglass was “making friends of all the little white boys” (paragraph 1) most likely because __________.

• he did not want to be seen with any fellow slaves

• he knew that they could read and he could not

• he did not know what to do with his extra bread

• he hoped that one of them could convince his owner to free him

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is told in the __________ tense, from a ___________ point of view.

• present; first person

• present; third person

• past; first person

• past; third-person

Douglass does not reveal the names of the boys who taught him to read most likely because ___________.

• he wishes that he never learned to read and would like to put it behind him

• he had long forgotten who they were

• he is still angry at them for having their freedom

• it was illegal teach slaves to read and he does not want them to get in trouble

Which sentence from the text most strongly supports the correct answer to Question 5?

• “As I writhed under it, I would at times feel that learning to read had been a curse rather than a blessing.”

• “These words used to trouble them; they would express for me the liveliest sympathy, and console me with the hope that something would occur by which I might be free.”

• “The moral which I gained from the dialogue was the power of truth over the conscience of even a slaveholder.”

• “When I was sent of errands, I always took my book with me, and by going one part of my errand quickly, I found time to get a lesson before my return.”