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Questions
| 1) | What is this chapter mainly about? |
| 2) | Which two reasons does Frederick Douglass give for not sharing all the details of his escape? |
| 3) | What does "enlightening" mean in both cases in the quote below?
"They do nothing towards enlightening the slave, whilst they do much towards enlightening the master." |
| 4) | Frederick Douglas writes "I would keep the merciless slaveholder profoundly ignorant of the means of flight adopted by the slave."
What does "adopted" mean in this context? |
| 6) | What did it show Frederick Douglass when he was paid six cents from the six dollars he earned? |
| 7) | When Frederick Douglass hires out his own time.
How much did Master Hugh calculate he owed him each week? |
| 8) | What does the word "ground" mean in the sentence below?
"The ground for his refusal was a failure on my part, one Saturday night, to pay him for my week's time." |
| 9) | Frederick Douglass thought that even more people want to escape slavery, but one thing kept them from leaving.
What kept people from attempting to escape slavery? |
| 10) | Where did Frederick Douglass flee to? |
| 11) | Why did Frederick Douglass not trust anyone after he was free? |
| 12) | When Mr. Ruggles asks Frederick Douglass where he wants to go, what does Frederick say? |
| 13) | What is the name of Frederick Douglass' wife? |
| 15) | Frederick Douglass compared the people that lived in New Bedford with the people he saw in Maryland. Which three words described the people that Frederick Douglass saw in New Bedford? |
| 16) | What did Frederick Douglass read that described the anti–slavery cause? |
| 17) | Where did Frederick Douglass give his first public anti–slavery speech? |
| 18) | Frederick Douglass wrote many other books and speeches, and many people have written about his life and times.
What else would you like to learn about Frederick Douglass? |