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Frederick Douglass

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name

Class

Date

The North Star was an _________.

book

magazine

abolitionist newspaper

journal

Frederick Douglass was a slave.

True

False

Frederick Douglass escaped by pretending to be a _________ and traveled north.

sailor

carpenter

blacksmith

slave

Frederick Douglass wanted _______.

to help slave children.

money.

to be a land owner.

justice for slaves.

Frederick Douglass was a known abolitionist. What is an abolitionist?

a person who wanted to end slavery.

a person who wanted to help endangered animals.

a person who fought for women's rights.

a presidential candidate.

Choose the best answer to complete the following sentence: Frederick Douglass is one of the most important figures in America's struggle for....

equal pay for slaves.

books about slavery.

racial equality and civil rights.

peaceful protests.

Who does Douglass suspect is his father?

a black slave

his mother's slave owner

Frederick Douglass was a highly regarded orator. What is an orator?

a public speaker

a writer

a teacher

role model

Why were PRO-slavery Americans skeptical about Douglass' narrative?

They did not believe an uneducated person wrote it.

They felt that it had been written by abolitionists.

They refused to believe a slave wrote such a brilliant story.

all of the above

10.

Southerners thought that Africans were intellectually inferior. What does this mean? Choose the best definition listed from those below.

Africans were masterminds when it came to commiting crimes.

They were not as smart as the white race.

They were not as healthy, physically or mentally, as the white race.

Africans were mentally insane.

11.

Where was Frederick Douglass born?

Massachusetts

New York

Washington, D.C.

Maryland

12.

Frederick Douglass wrote an autobiography about his years ___________.

Fighting for labor unions

As an enslaved man

Living in another country

Fighting the British

13.

Frederick Douglass used what skill to fight against slavery?

Making speeches

Working on a railroad

Building ships

All of the above

14.

Why was it dangerous for slaves to read?

They might read books that told them their human rights were being violated.

There weren't enough teachers

They would rise up against their masters because they wouldn't have time to learn

They would be better readers than the whites and then become more educated and take over

15.

The first page of Excerpt 1 explained that slaves had no knowledge of...

Their parents

Their age/birthday

Their location on a map

Their grade in English right now

16.

Based on what we have read over the past two days, what was Douglass’s main purpose in writing his autobiography, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass?

To cover up his true identity

To help other slaves know how to get free

To shed light/truth on the system of slavery

To make him sound smart

17.

The purpose of keeping slaves ignorant would be to take away their...

identity

soul

mothers

trust

18.

"I was not allowed to make any inquiries of my master concerning it." My best guess for what "inquiries" is...

to gain approval

to seek answers

to be rude and disrespectful

not often

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Frederick Douglass

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 11mins

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