Frederick Douglass - Ch. 8-9

What is ranked the same in value as the slaves?

• farm animals

• house pets

• farms

• furniture

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 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 was the reason Fredrick considered Thomas to be more cruel than other slave holders?

• Power and wealth overthrew his compassion for others

• He was not a born slave holder

• He made them work for extremely long hours.

• Thomas burned their finger as punishment

Why does he say in the beginning of the chapter, " I have now reached I time in my life where I can give dates"

• He pretends to know the date to seem more educated

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  He got send to a Methodist camp where he leaned to read.

• His new masters daughter would tell him the day and date every morning

• His master had taught him how to read and write so he now knows the dates.

What rule of slaveholding does master Thomas Auld violate?

• Made the slaves sleep outside

• Didn't give the slaves enough to eat

• He would burn them as a punishment

• He would brutally whip them

What, according to Frederick, happens to Master Thomas Auld after his return from the Methodist camp?

• Becomes more cruel. Uses religion to support his behavior.

• He now believes it is crucial for slaves to have some education.

• Becomes more compassionate towards them.

• Believes he no longer needs the slaves.

Why does Frederick let Master Thomas' horse run away?

• To get Thomas back for all the cruelty he gave him.

• So he could go after it and get something to eat.

• The horse running away was going to be his excused to run away.

• He did it out of anger and frustration.