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Frederick Douglass

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is something Harriet Beecher Stowe claims is the responsibility of Christians to the slaves?

a)

Reparations for the wrongs that the American nation has brought upon them

b)

A care package with food, clothing and a train ticket to escape the south

c)

To pay the school tuition for every slave freed

d)

To record their cultural heritage from Africa

2.

What is the title of Harriet Beecher Stowe's popular novel?

a)

The Change to Come

b)

Wildlings Going Free

c)

Uncle Tom's Cabin

d)

Christian Responsibility and Penance

3.

William Lloyd Garrison is most widely known for...

a)

Fathering children with a former slave

b)

Exposing the cruel realities of slavery in his many speeches

c)

his help in sheltering hundreds of slaves on the underground railroad.

d)

publishing the newsletter, "The Liberator" which he founded in 1831

4.

Which celestial object in the night sky did William LLoyd Garrison direct the slaves to be guided by?

a)

the planet Venus because it shines the brightest

b)

the north star

c)

the planet mars

d)

the moon

5.

True or False: Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and William LLoyd Garrison were all apart of the abolishinist movement?

a)

True

b)

False

6.

Who were the parents of Frederick Douglass

a)

two slaves on the same plantation

b)

two slaves who worked on separate plantations

c)

a slave and an unknown white man

d)

a slave who worked the fields and a slave who worked in the big house

7.

When Frederick Douglass finally escaped in 1838 he escaped to...

a)

Maryland

b)

West Virginia

c)

New York City

d)

Boston

8.

True or False: Slave owners exclaimed that the slaves were incapable of caring for themselves as an argument for why they could not be freed.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

Which quote below exemplifies that the institution of slavery had demoralized and degraded Frederick Douglass?

a)

"My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died..."

b)

"I seized Covey hard by the throat;"

c)

"My resistance was so entirely unexpected that Covey seemed taken all aback."

d)

"The battle with Mr. Covey was the turning-point in my career as a slave.

10.

What event inspired Douglass's "...long-crushed spirit" to rise again?

a)

the death of his mother

b)

the death of his slave master

c)

his escape to freedom

d)

The battle with Mr. Covey

11.

The word Elucidate means...

a)

to gain more followers on social media

b)

to make something more clear

c)

to eliminate people in a competition

d)

to take a survey

12.

Something that is plain, ordinary, common

a)

amoral

b)

bedlam

c)

scurrilous

d)

banal

13.

Something bad that is likely to happen or threatening is...

a)

Scurrilous

b)

Antipathy

c)

Imminent

d)

Onerous

14.

Antipathy is...

a)

an intense dislike

b)

something you wait for

c)

extreme sadness or pity

d)

lacking a sense of what is right or wrong

15.

True or False: While a slave, Frederick Douglass was responsible for gathering the food and cooking?

a)

True

b)

False