WorksheetsWhat to the Slave is the 4th of July?
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
What is most likely the speaker’s reason for listing all of the jobs and professions held by Black people?
A. The speaker wants to show how exhausted Black people are from all their labor.
B. The speaker has been employed at one time or another in all of these capacities.
C. The speaker proves the argument that Black people are intelligent human beings.
D. The speaker wishes to show the difference between man and animals.
What is most closely a central idea of this speech?
A. The speaker is advocating for forgiveness of America for a past tarnished by slavery.
B. The speaker wants to maintain the status quo by asking slaves not to celebrate the Fourth of July.
C. The speaker believes the Fourth of July offers nothing to slaves, and wants America to wake up to her conscience.
D. The speaker wants America to make retribution to the sons and daughters of the slaves.
1. What is the main purpose of the passage?
To encourage women to stand up for their rights.
To argue that as long as slavery still exists, the Fourth of July is meaningless.
To persuade slaves to use violence to become truly free.
To entertain slaves so they want to work harder.
2. Why does Douglass say that even the slave owners acknowledge that slaves are human?
None of the following.
Slaves should flee to the North.
Slaves deserve to be paid.
Slaves are subject to human laws thus they must be human.
In his Fourth of July speech, why does Douglass say to his audience that "The Fourth of July is yours, not mine"?
He contends that the liberty affirmed by the holiday has been denied to African Americans such as himself.
He believes that, too often, African Americans such as himself are excluded from celebrations of public holidays.
He and others like him do not believe in some of the key values represented by the holiday.
In his Fourth of July speech, Douglass says that "above your national, tumultuous joy, I hear the wail of millions." To what is he referring?
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the extensive sufferings of enslaved African Americans
the anger of enslavers opposed to slaves' freedom
the outrage of Northerners opposed to slavery
Which of the following is the central claim that Douglass argues in his speech?
Slavery is an evil that causes him to be outraged.
Slavery is an evil that goes against American values.
If there is a disparity between Mia's grades this year and her grades last year, which of the following must be true?
Mia's grades this year are better than they were last year.
Mia's grades this year are different than they were last year.
Which of the following is the best definition of denounce?
Criticize hasrshly
Announce loudly
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.
Which statement from the speech best reveals the main idea of the speech?
Throughout the world, America shows the most revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy for its usage of slavery.
Gross inequalities exist throughout the United States of America, and Independence Day serves to highlight them.
The Fourth of July is a day that reveals to the American slave the injustice and cruelty of his or her lack of freedom.
Enslaving people robs them of their essential humanity, which is a God-given right.
Douglass cites laws that forbid teaching slaves to read and write as evidence that supports the general principle that
slavery is immoral.
slavery is not divine
slaves are entitled to liberty.
slaves are men, not animals.
