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Question 1

Read the excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.We were all ranked together at the valuation. Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine. There were horses and men, cattle and women, pigs and children, all holding the same rank in the scale of being, and were all subjected to the same narrow examination. Silvery-headed age and sprightly youth, maids and matrons, had to undergo the same indelicate inspection.

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D: to describe how people were degraded and treated inhumanely

Question 2

Which line from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass contains imagery?

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A: I had escaped a [fate] worse than lion's jaws.

Question 3

Read the excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.After the valuation, then came the division. I have no language to express the high excitement and deep anxiety which were felt among us poor slaves during this time. Our fate for life was now to be decided. We had no more voice in that decision than the brutes among whom we were ranked. A single word from the white men was enough--against all our wishes, prayers, and entreaties--to sunder forever the dearest friends, dearest kindred, and strongest ties known to human beings.

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D: inform the reader about the cruelty of slavery.

Question 4

Read the excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.We were all ranked together at the valuation. Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine. There were horses and men, cattle and women, pigs and children, all holding the same rank in the scale of being, and were all subjected to the same narrow examination. Silvery-headed age and sprightly youth, maids and matrons, had to undergo the same indelicate inspection.

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A: sight.

Question 5

Which line from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass contains imagery?

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D: Their backs had been made familiar with the bloody lash, so that they had become callous.

Question 6

Read the excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.After that, when I met with any boy who I knew could write, I would tell him I could write as well as he. The next word would be, "I don't believe you. Let me see you try it." I would then make the letters which I had been so fortunate as to learn, and ask him to beat that. In this way I got a good many lessons in writing, which it is quite possible I should never have gotten in any other way.

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C: to explain how he learned to write

Question 7

Read the excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.I suffered more anxiety than most of my fellow-slaves. I had known what it was to be kindly treated; they had known nothing of the kind. They had seen little or nothing of the world. They were in very deed men and women of sorrow, and acquainted with grief. Their backs had been made familiar with the bloody lash, so that they had become callous; mine was yet tender; for while at Baltimore, I got few whippings, and few slaves could boast of a kinder master and mistress than myself; . . .

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C: It contains descriptions of the brutal effects of slavery on enslaved people.

Question 8

Which is the best definition of imagery?

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D: vivid language that appeals to the five senses

Question 9

In Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, what was the effect of Captain Anthony dying without a will?

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B: Douglass was subjected to “valuation.”

Question 10

In Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, what first prompted Douglass to think about running away to the North?

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C: He heard two Irishmen say that he deserved freedom.

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