WorksheetsFrederick Douglass - Ch. 5-8
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 30mins
Who does Douglass say he will miss when he left Colonel Lloyd's plantation?
Toby
Master Daniel
No one
Master Garrison
How many slaves had Mrs. Auld owned before Douglass arrived?
None
One
Two
Ten
What does Mr. Auld tell his wife regarding teaching slaves to read?
It's against the law.
Slaves would become unmanageable.
It is not safe.
All are correct.
What does Douglass vow to do during Chapter 6?
Learn to count money
Learn to read
Earn his freedom
Go to school
What does Douglass take with him when he goes on errands?
a piece of paper
a book
a stick to write in the dirt
a newspaper
What is the subject matter of the two books that Douglass reads and finds interesting?
A look at slavery from both perspectives
How slavery will change in the future
Life of an educated slave
Life of an educated white man
What makes Douglass unhappy during Chapter 7?
missing his mother
being beaten
his new found knowledge about slavery
being starved
What does "abolitionist" mean?
A person from the south who is fighting to keep slavery laws intact
Someone who works to make laws for slaveholders stronger
Someone who wants all slaves in the North to be free
Someone who wants to get rid of slavery
Why does Douglass have to go back to his birthplace?
His first master is mad with his current owners.
His first master dies and has no will.
His first master wants him to go with his son.
He gets in trouble.
What is ranked the same in value as the slaves?
farm animals
house pets
farms
furniture
What causes Douglass to hate the slaveholders even more than usual?
Passing slaves to others without any gratitude for their years of service.
Deciding to give their slaves less food than usual for working slowly.
They take all his books away.
They trade him for a horse.
What happens to Douglass' grandmother when she gets older?
She is set free.
She has to move to a mud hut in the woods.
She is allowed to go and take Douglass with her.
She continues to care for her master.
When Douglass says, "I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it," what was he referring to?
Slavery
Freedom
Anger
Reading
What literary device is being used here?
"I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it."
simile
metaphor
alliteration
paradox
What emotion is Douglass appealing to most when he says, "my poor old grandmother"?
sympathy
anger
confusion
pain
