Fredrick Douglas "What to a Slave if the Fourth of July" Speech

Which of the following inferences is best supported by passage below?

But such is not the state of the case. I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included within the pale of glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought light and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth July is yours, not mine.

• Douglass is jealous of those who celebrate the Fourth of July.

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  Douglass loves this country right or wrong.

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  Douglass says his people have no reason to celebrate the Fourth of July.

• Douglass wishes he lived in another country.

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p11 What is most likely Douglass's reason for listing all of the jobs and professions held by Black people?

• He wants to show how exhausted Black people are from all their labor.

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  He proves the argument that Black people are intelligent human beings.

• He wishes to show the difference between man and animals.

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  He has been employed at one time or another in all of these capacities.

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Which of these inferences is best supported by this speech?

• The Fourth of July should become a national day of mourning.

• America has no right to criticize other nations for their violence against humanity.

• America is still the best country in the world.

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  All the prayerful demonstrations in America cannot cover up the hypocrisy of allowing slavery, a crime against humanity.

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What is most closely a central idea of this speech?

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  Douglass believes the Fourth of July offers nothing to slaves, and wants America to wake up to her conscience.

• Douglass wants to maintain the status quo by asking slaves not to celebrate the Fourth of July.

• Douglass wants America to make retribution to the sons and daughters of the slaves.

• Douglass is advocating for forgiveness of America for a past tarnished by slavery.

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Which piece of evidence BEST SUPPORTS the central idea of the speech from question 4?

• “For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder.”

• “At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.”

• “We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.”

• “The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hyprocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.”

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Frederick Douglass wanted _______.

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  to be a land owner

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  to help enslaved children

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  money

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  justice for slaves

p6 Frederick Douglass makes a claim that the Fourth of July has never looked "blacker to me." How was Douglass using the word "black" on line 24" in "What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?"

• Douglass was referring to the darkness of slavery that is being overlooked during a celebratory time of independence.

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  Douglas was referring the the literal color black.

• Douglass is referring to the time in which he gave the speech to the audience.

• There is no connotative meaning for the word choice Douglass used.

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p16-17 How does Douglass respond to his rhetorical question?

• Douglass suggests that enslaved people become free.

• The Fourth of July is an unjust celebration for those denied the freedom to be treated with dignity and respect as human beings.

• Douglass asserts that abolitionist stop celebrating the Fourth of July until slaves are free to celebrate as well.

• Douglass never answers his rhetorical question.

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p9-Why does Douglass say that even the slave owners acknowledge that slaves are human?

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  None of the following.

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  Slaves deserve to be paid.

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  Slaves should flee to the North.

• Slaves are subject to human laws thus they must be human.

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Which of the following supports the claim that slavery is an evil that goes against American values and principles?

• "I am not included within the pale of glorious anniversary!"

• I will, … in the name of liberty which is fettered, in the name of the constitution and the Bible which are disregarded and trampled upon, dare to call in question and to denounce … everything that serves to perpetuate slavery.…

• above your national, tumultuous joy, I hear the mournful wail of millions! whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are, today, rendered more intolerable

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