WorksheetsMy Bondage and My Freedom, Chapter 9
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 4mins
Frederick Douglass believes that being an oppressive slave owner doesn't come naturally to any human being.
True
False
All of the following experiences, Douglass experienced with his mistress in the process of his learning to read EXCEPT
She taught him how to read.
She got mad at him when she caught him reading.
He paid her with bread for teaching him to read
She treated him with love and kindness
Douglass seems to identify white people who seem to understand the struggle and injustice of his bondage.
True
False
In the story that Douglass reads in the “Columbian Orator” about a slave and a master, why does the master emancipate (or free) his slave?
Because he cries and feels sorry for himself.
Because the master doesn't have money to pay him.
Because the slave argues why slavery is wrong and convinces his master.
Because the Union army was coming against the South.
What does Douglass learn about how a slave could get his freedom from reading the story mentioned in question 3?
They could take arms and fight.
They could reasonably argue for their freedom.
There were slave owners who were willing to listen to their slaves.
Slaves could fight for their rights by being politicians
Only b and c
Through his reading and study, Douglass discovers that one of the “secret [or the cause] of all slavery and oppression” was
greed or avarice
laziness
ignorance
foolishness
Why does Douglass say the increase of knowledge was both “bitter” and “sweet?”
Because he was now confused about everything.
Because now he had the taste of the idea that freedom was necessary and possible.
Because he didn't know who his parents were.
Because he was too afraid to be free and alone in the world.
Douglass envies the slaves who can’t read or haven’t gained knowledge like him because his learning had made him aware of the injustice of his condition.
True
False
Who is Douglass referring to when he says, “Nature had made us friends; slavery made us enemies?”
Master Hugh
his mother
George Covey
Mrs. Auld
What does Douglass mean when he says, “No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck?”
Slavery is never going away.
Slavery is going to enslave everyone in the world.
Slavery enslaves and badly affects both the slave and the slave owner.
Slavery is a race issue.
