Summative Quiz Slave Narratives

When someone is kind and has an agreeable or pleasing personality or character, he is considered________.

• congenial

• destitute

• abate

• sinister

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

If something exists as a permanent, essential, or characteristic attribute it is____.

• divest

• inherent

• waxed

• forfeit

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

After Mrs. Auld changed her treatment of Douglass and stopped teaching him, she treated him like___.

• fervent

• chattel

• vocation

• a person

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What did Douglass carry in his pocket to help further his education when he was young since Mrs. Auld stopped teaching him?

• A pack of gum

• The Bible

• Webster's spelling book

• A pocket knite

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What were the white boys' attitudes toward slavery?

• They defended the slave system.

• They wanted to be slaves themselves.

• They thought God made some people to be slaves.

• They viewed them as people, not slaves.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

When were Douglass' narratives written?

• The mid 1800's about 1855.

• The beginning of the 1900s.

• 1620

• Unknown

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Based on the text and Douglass's experiences with the young white boys during his youth, what can you infer about human nature and youth?

• Older people care more about humanity than young people do.

• Children has a strong sense of what is morally right and wrong.

• Adults' beliefs are not influenced by money or status.

• Boys want payment for their help with reading.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

When Mrs. Auld caught Douglass reading, she would sometimes rush at him in consternation and ____and grab the book from him.

• fear

• sorrow

• anger

• elation

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is an important message from Douglass in this text?

• Slave owners and slaves should be friends.

• The wish for freedom can be rooted out of one's soul.

• Slaves have a generally good life in Baltimore.

• A kind owner cannot relieve the injustice of slavery.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What picture does Jacobs paint of slave life?

• One that is comfortable and appeasing.

• One that highlights the critical and dangerous conditions that enslaved people faced.

• One that counters the idyllic depictions of slavery that often came from slaveholders.

• B and C

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6