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grade
"Learning the Read" & Narrative of the Life of Frederick Dou
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- 1. Multiple Choice
Use Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass to answer the following question.
Douglass was “making friends of all the little white boys” (paragraph 1) most likely because________. (8.5F) (8.5G) (8.6C)
he did not want to be seen with any fellow enslaved people
he knew that they could read and he could not
he did not know what to do with his extra bread
he hoped that one of them could convince his owner to free him
- 2. Multiple Choice
Use Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass to answer the following question.
Which is most closely a central idea of this excerpt? (8.5F) (8.5G) (8.6C)
No one felt sorry for the condition of enslaved people except for enslaved people themselves.
Reading cannot change how you feel about things.
The process of self-discovery can be a painful one.
Children should not be learning about adult subjects.
- 3. Multiple Choice
Use Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass to answer the following question.
Douglass believed that learning to read would be a valuable skill. In paragraph 4 he calls reading “that more valuable bread of knowledge.” Which of the following statements supports why he feels that way? (8.6C)
“I finally succeeded in learning how to write.”
Reading helped Douglass form his own ideas and argue against slavery.
“I looked forward to the time at which it would be safe for me to escape.”
“Every opportunity I got, I used to read this book.”
- 4. Multiple Choice
Use Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass to answer the following question.
Determine the best meaning of the word bear as used in paragraph 5.(8.2B)
to carry
to bring forth or produce
to endure
to weigh on or burden
- 5. Multiple Choice
Use “Learning to Read” to answer the following question.
Which of the following inferences is best supported by the opening stanza of the poem? (8.5F) (8.5G) (8.6C)
Very soon the Yankee teachers
Came down and set up school;
But, oh! how the Rebs did hate it,—
It was agin’ their rule.
The narrator is a Yankee teacher.
Setting up schools is the main focus of the Yankees.
Education of former slaves faces strong local opposition.
The schools are being set up during a time of war.
- 6. Multiple Choice
Use “Learning to Read” to answer the following question.
Which of the following lines best describes the kinds of actions slaves would take in order to educate themselves? (8.5G) (8.6C) (8.7B)
“Our masters always tried to hide/Book learning from our eyes;”
“Well, the Northern folks kept sending/The Yankee teachers down;”
“And I longed to read my Bible,/For precious words it said;”
“And greased the pages of his book,/And hid it in his hat.”
- 7. Multiple Choice
Use “Learning to Read” to answer the following question.
What do the descriptions of the chances the slaves took, learning to read, suggest about them? (8.5F) (8.6C)
They were too afraid to take any chances and stayed illiterate.
They were happy to remain illiterate.
They believed that knowledge didn’t agree with slavery.
They were persistent in learning how to read.
- 8. Multiple Choice
Use “Learning to Read” to answer the following question.
Why does the author use the simile as a queen upon her throne at the end of the poem? (8.9D)
To let the reader know that Chloe was proud of her successes.
To let the reader know that Chloe was too old to learn to read.
To let the reader know how the slave masters ruled.
To let the reader know that the Yankees were smart teachers.
- 9. Multiple Choice
Use “Learning to Read” to answer the following question.
Read the dictionary entry. (8.2A)
leaves /lēvz/
1. Flattened structures of plants
2. Printed sheets of paper
3. Permission to be absent from duty
Which definition best matches the way the word leaves is used on line 18?
17 And had his master ever seen
18 The leaves upon his head,
19 He’s have thought them greasy papers,
20 But nothing to be read.
Definition 1
Definition 2
Definition 3
None of the above
- 10. Multiple Choice
Use both "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" and "Learning to Read" to answer the following question.
Which idea about persistence is expressed throughout both selections? (8.5E)
The less that you know, the less that you will worry about something.
It’s advisable to give up when the situation becomes difficult.
It’s easy to take risks when you have supportive friends.
The risks it took to gain knowledge was worth the hard work.
- 11. Multiple Choice
Use both "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" and "Learning to Read" to answer the following question.
With which statement would both the author of the narrative and the poet most likely agree? (8.5E) (8.5H)
Educating slaves would cause problems for the slave masters.
“Learning to read had been a curse rather than a blessing.”
Education could help slaveholders and enslaved people get along.
Slaveholders took care in educating their slaves.
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