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WorksheetsFrederick Douglass chapter 7
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 20mins
True or False:
Douglass learns a new lesson about slavery: it doesn't just brutalize the slaves, it also brutalizes the masters too.
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"Brutalize" is one of Mr. Auld's favorite words, because it means both to treat someone badly and to make someone into a brute.
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The mistress' husband used to have to remind her to be cruel to the slaves
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Nothing makes Mrs. Auld fly into a rage faster than catching Douglass with a newspaper.
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Frederick Douglass is convinced that learning to read is the way out of slavery.
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The Columbian Orator is a newspaper Frederick Douglass used to read.
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Frederick Douglass was 22 in chapter 7
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Sometimes, though, Douglass wonders if learning to read wasn't more of a curse than a blessing.
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"Abolition" means putting an end to slavery
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During the time at Master Hugh's, Frederick Douglass succeeded in learning to read and write.
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Frederick Douglass felt that slaves were "stolen" from their home in Africa.
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Frederick Douglass's favorite book is called The Columbian Orator.
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Frederick Douglas shared his condition in slavery with white boys he befriended.
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An "Abolitionist" is someone who is working to make slavery happen.
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Frederick Douglass managed to learn to read by making friends with white kids in the street
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Frederick Douglass wondered if learning to read was more of a curse than a blessing.
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Frederick Douglass challenged white boys to writing contests for him to learn how to write.
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Frederick Douglass helped some English men to upload a scow of stone.
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Frederick Douglass learned how to write with a pencil.
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As directed by Mr. Auld, the Mistress treated Frederick Douglass like a brute and ceased to teach him how to read, while leaving him in mental darkness.
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Frederick Douglass read about the Catholic emancipation with unabated interest.
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Frederick Douglass was________when he lived with Mr. Auld in chapter 7.
14 years old
10 years old
22 years old
12 years old
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The Mistress snatched a newspaper from Frederick Douglass, with her apprehension as to what he was really reading.
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Frederick Douglass bestowed bread upon the urchins he met in the streets.
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Frederick Douglass practiced his reading by decoding letters on a boat timbers.
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Two Irishmen advised Frederick Douglass to run away to the north, where he would find friends.
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Master Thomas said to Frederick Douglass that it was a pity that such a good little boy as himself was a slave.
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Frederick Douglass was afraid to listen to the Irishmen advice to run away to the north because it was known that mean would encourage slaves to run away, and then return them to their masters, while getting a reward in return.
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Frederick Douglass took a city newspaper with him during his errands, in order to improve his reading.
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What caused Frederick Douglass to hate slavery more and more?
Stories he heard on the street.
He does not specify.
Learning from his kind masters.
Reading more and more of it.
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Frederick Douglass soon noticed that he sustained to his Mistress the relation of a mere chattel.
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How did Frederick Douglass find time to read while running errands?
He was a fast reader.
He was a friendly boy.
He got up very early to read.
He finished his errands quickly.
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Frederick Douglass often found himself regretting his existence while thinking or hearing about slavery.
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Frederick Douglass read in a city newspaper about the praying for slavery would end.
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Frederick Douglass used the brick wall and the pavement to practice his writing.
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Frederick Douglass perfected his writing by imitating Master Hugh's writing.
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Frederick Douglass thought that slavery proved as injurious to his Mistress as it did to him."
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Frederick Douglass said to his Mistress that he was a slave for life.
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Frederick Douglass described his Mistress as having a lamblike disposition giving way to one of tiger-like fierceness.
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True or False:
Through reading, Frederick Douglass learned about slavery, abolitionists, and freedom; thus having his soul to unutterable anguish because although knowing about this, he yet could not aspire to be a free man.
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