Text of Book
Chapter 5, page 1
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Questions
| 1) | What is this chapter mainly about? |
| 2) | Frederick Douglass recalls that "ties that ordinarily bind children to their homes were all suspended in my case."
What does he mean by the word "bind"? |
| 3) | In the same quote (below), what does "suspended" mean?
"The ties that ordinarily bind children to their homes were all suspended in my case." |
| 4) | Frederick Douglass mentions that he had some "leisure time" because he was too young for field work.
How old was he at this point? |
| 5) | What two problems most affected Frederick Douglass as a child? |
| 6) | How were the slave children fed at Colonel Lloyd's farm? |
| 7) | What happened when Frederick Douglass got on the boat headed to Baltimore? |
| 8) | What was the new task that Frederick Douglass was given? |
| 9) | Why was Frederick Douglass chosen for this task? |
| 10) | What did Frederick Douglass see for the first time in Baltimore? |
| 13) | What else would you like to learn about Frederick Douglas' childhood? |