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Frederick Douglass chapter 7

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

True or False:

Douglass learns a new lesson about slavery: it doesn't just brutalize the slaves, it also brutalizes the masters too.

a)

true

b)

false

2.

True or False:

"Brutalize" is one of Mr. Auld's favorite words, because it means both to treat someone badly and to make someone into a brute.

a)

true

b)

false

3.

True or False:

The mistress' husband used to have to remind her to be cruel to the slaves

a)

true

b)

false

4.

True or False:

Nothing makes Mrs. Auld fly into a rage faster than catching Douglass with a newspaper.

a)

true

b)

false

5.

True or False:

Frederick Douglass is convinced that learning to read is the way out of slavery.

a)

true

b)

false

6.

True or False:

The Columbian Orator is a newspaper Frederick Douglass used to read.

a)

true

b)

false

7.

True or False:

Frederick Douglass was 22 in chapter 7

a)

true

b)

false

8.

True or False:

Sometimes, though, Douglass wonders if learning to read wasn't more of a curse than a blessing.

a)

true

b)

false

9.

True or False:

"Abolition" means putting an end to slavery

a)

true

b)

false

10.

True or False:

During the time at Master Hugh's, Frederick Douglass succeeded in learning to read and write.

a)

true

b)

false

11.

True or False:

Frederick Douglass felt that slaves were "stolen" from their home in Africa.

a)

true

b)

false

12.

True or False:

Frederick Douglass's favorite book is called The Columbian Orator.

a)

true

b)

false

13.

True or False:

Frederick Douglas shared his condition in slavery with white boys he befriended.

a)

true

b)

false

14.

True or False:

An "Abolitionist" is someone who is working to make slavery happen.

a)

true

b)

false

15.

True or False:

Frederick Douglass managed to learn to read by making friends with white kids in the street

a)

true

b)

false

16.

True or False:

Frederick Douglass wondered if learning to read was more of a curse than a blessing.

a)

true

b)

false

17.

True or False:

Frederick Douglass challenged white boys to writing contests for him to learn how to write.

a)

true

b)

false

18.

True or False:

Frederick Douglass helped some English men to upload a scow of stone.

a)

true

b)

false

19.

True or False:

Frederick Douglass learned how to write with a pencil.

a)

true

b)

false

20.

True or False:

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.

a)

true

b)

false

21.

True or False:

Frederick Douglass read about the Catholic emancipation with unabated interest.

a)

true

b)

false

22.

True or False:

Frederick Douglass was________when he lived with Mr. Auld in chapter 7.

a)

14 years old

b)

10 years old

c)

22 years old

d)

12 years old

23.

True or False:

The Mistress snatched a newspaper from Frederick Douglass, with her apprehension as to what he was really reading.

a)

true

b)

false

24.

True or False:

Frederick Douglass bestowed bread upon the urchins he met in the streets.

a)

true

b)

false

25.

True or False:

Frederick Douglass practiced his reading by decoding letters on a boat timbers.

a)

true

b)

false

26.

True or False:

Two Irishmen advised Frederick Douglass to run away to the north, where he would find friends.

a)

true

b)

false

27.

True or False:

Master Thomas said to Frederick Douglass that it was a pity that such a good little boy as himself was a slave.

a)

true

b)

false

28.

True or False:

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.

a)

true

b)

false

29.

True or False:

Frederick Douglass took a city newspaper with him during his errands, in order to improve his reading.

a)

true

b)

false

30.

True or False:

What caused Frederick Douglass to hate slavery more and more?

a)

Stories he heard on the street.

b)

He does not specify.

c)

Learning from his kind masters.

d)

Reading more and more of it.

31.

True or False:

Frederick Douglass soon noticed that he sustained to his Mistress the relation of a mere chattel.

a)

true

b)

false

32.

True or False:

How did Frederick Douglass find time to read while running errands?

a)

He was a fast reader.

b)

He was a friendly boy.

c)

He got up very early to read.

d)

He finished his errands quickly.

33.

True or False:

Frederick Douglass often found himself regretting his existence while thinking or hearing about slavery.

a)

true

b)

false

34.

True or False:

Frederick Douglass read in a city newspaper about the praying for slavery would end.

a)

true

b)

false

35.

True or False:

Frederick Douglass used the brick wall and the pavement to practice his writing.

a)

true

b)

false

36.

True or False:

Frederick Douglass perfected his writing by imitating Master Hugh's writing.

a)

true

b)

false

37.

True or False:

Frederick Douglass thought that slavery proved as injurious to his Mistress as it did to him."

a)

true

b)

false

38.

True or False:

Frederick Douglass said to his Mistress that he was a slave for life.

a)

true

b)

false

39.

True or False:

Frederick Douglass described his Mistress as having a lamblike disposition giving way to one of tiger-like fierceness.

a)

true

b)

false

40.

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.

a)

true

b)

false