Chapter 7

Text of Book

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Questions

1)	What is this chapter mainly about?

2)	How did Frederick Douglass learn to read?

3)	Frederick Douglass wrote "My mistress, who had kindly commenced to instruct me, had, in compliance with the advice and direction of her husband, not only ceased to instruct, but had set her face against my being instructed by any one else." What does he mean by "in compliance" in this context?

4)	In the same quote as the last question (below), what does "ceased" meant? "My mistress, who had kindly commenced to instruct me, had, in compliance with the advice and direction of her husband, not only ceased to instruct, but had set her face against my being instructed by any one else."

5)	Why was it important that that Frederick Douglass learned four letters by himself?

6)	Frederick Douglass wrote "She was an apt woman; and a little experience soon demonstrated, to her satisfaction, that education and slavery were incompatible with each other." What does he mean by "education and slavery were incompatible" in this context?

7)	What was the book that Frederick Douglass read that he found as a discussion between slave and master?

8)	What did Frederick Douglass first write with?

9)	Frederick Douglass described that "[t]he moral which I gained from the dialogue was the power of truth over the conscience of even a slaveholder." What does he mean by "gained" mean as used by Frederick Douglass?

10)	In the same quote as the last question (below), what does "dialogue" meant? "The moral which I gained from the dialogue was the power of truth over the conscience of even a slaveholder."

11)	Where did Frederick Douglass learn to write his first four letters?

12)	What else would you like to learn about Frederick Douglass?