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Read the text from paragraph 3.

“Our food was coarse cornmeal boiled. This was called mush. It was put into a large wooden tray or trough, and set down upon the ground. The children were then called, like so many pigs, and like so many pigs they would come and devour the mush; some with oyster shells, others with pieces of shingle, some with naked hands, and none with spoons.”

What is most likely Douglass's reason for including these images and details in the text?

• To show intelligence was more useful than strength or speed on the plantation 

• To show that the enslaved children were not treated like human beings on the plantation.

• To show how enslaved children on the plantation took care of one another. 

• To show why many enslaved children on the plantation refused to eat their meals.

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Read the text from paragraph 3.

“Our food was coarse cornmeal boiled. This was called mush. It was put into a large wooden tray or trough, and set down upon the ground. The children were then called, like so many pigs, and like so many pigs they would come and devour the mush; some with oyster shells, others with pieces of shingle, some with naked hands, and none with spoons.”

What is most likely Douglass's reason for including these images and details in the text?

• To show intelligence was more useful than strength or speed on the plantation 

• To show that the enslaved children were not treated like human beings on the plantation.

• To show how enslaved children on the plantation took care of one another. 

• To show why many enslaved children on the plantation refused to eat their meals.

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What is the central idea of the passage?

• It is about why Douglass preferred to work for Mrs. Auld rather than Colonel Lloyd

• It is about Douglass’ relationship with the other enslaved people on the plantation. 

• It is about how Douglass was treated during his early childhood on the plantation

• It is about the reasons Colonel Lloyd chose to send Douglass to live in Baltimore.

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According to the passage, what was the most challenging part of Douglass's life on Colonel Lloyd's plantation?

• Avoiding the violence of Colonel Lloyd

• Carrying heavy bags of corn

• Being forced to eat mush

• Not being able to stay warm

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What is the meaning of ecstasy as used in the passage?

• Creeping fear

• Chaotic confusion 

• Intense delight

• Deep boredom

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What is the central idea of Part 2 passage?

• It is about how Douglass grew bored with farmwork and wished to become a sailor

• It is about how Douglass became ill and started to imagine that he saw ghosts.

• It is about how the cruel conditions Douglass suffered intensified his deep longing for freedom. 

• It is about how Douglass' mind felt tired, while his mind felt curious and alert.

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Read the excerpt from paragraph 1 of passage 2 

“My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute! [ . . . ]”

What does it it reveal about how Douglass was affected by his time on Covey's farm?

• It shows how Douglass felt robbed of his humanity because of the constant oppression he faced. 

• It shows how Mr. Covey interrupted Douglass’s education and ambition by confiscating his books

• It shows how Douglass’s eyes became so remarkably strained that he was barely able to read. 

• It shows how Douglass was forced to resort to secretly reading and studying at night. 

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How did Douglass feel in passage 2 when he watched the ships sailing in Chesapeake Bay?

• He felt peaceful and calm. 

• He felt overwhelmed and disturbed. 

• He felt hopeful and excited. 

• He felt bitter and jealous. 

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Select the detail from passage 2 that best shows that Douglass saw the ships as a symbol of freedom.

• Our house stood within a few rods of the Chesapeake Bay, whose broad bosom was ever white with sails from every quarter of the habitable globe. (paragraph 2)

• The sight of these always affected me powerfully. (paragraph 3)

   

• You move merrily before the gentle gale, and I sadly before the bloody whip! (paragraph 3)

• Could I but swim! If I could fly! O, why was I born a man, of whom to make a brute. (paragraph 3)

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Plato’s story of Atlantis is less about a “lost” civilization than it is about the virtue of the Athenians, and scholars believe that Atlantis never in fact existed, but was a literary creation on the part of Plato. Atlantis has never been mentioned in any other Greek literature that has ever been found. In fact, for most of history people have believed that Atlantis was a fictional place, until the late 1800s when a writer named Ignatius Donnelly proposed that significant achievements of the ancient world, like metallurgy, agriculture, religion and language — must have originated in Atlantis.

What evidence best supports the claim that Plato most likely made up the story of Atlantis?

• Atlantis has never been mentioned in any other Greek literature that has ever been found.

• The story of Atlantis is less about a “lost” civilization than it is about the virtue of the Athenians.

• A writier named Ignatius Donnelly proposed that significant achievements of the ancient world . . . must have originated in Atlantis.

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