Frederick Douglass Review

Question 1

What happened to Sofia Auld?

Accepted Answer

She became meaner than her husband, She stopped teaching FD how to read

Question 2

Frederick Douglass knew his mother very well up until she died.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 3

Why would slaveholders break apart families?

Accepted Answer

To break apart family ties, To keep them ignorant of their bloodlines

Question 4

Was Mr. Freeland religious?

Accepted Answer

No, thank good ness

Question 5

Why doesn't FD tell us how he escaped?

Accepted Answer

He doesnt want his friends that helped him to get in trouble, He doesnt want slaveholders to know how he did it

Question 6

What was the first trade that Frederick Douglass learned?

Accepted Answer

Caulking ships

Question 7

An abolitionist is a person who wanted what?

Accepted Answer

To end slavery

Question 8

FD went to work for Mr. Price, who was a kind man. What bothered FD about him, though?

Accepted Answer

Mr. Price took FD's money

Question 9

Did Mr. Covey "break" Frederick Douglass?

Accepted Answer

yes, for a while

Question 10

What started "The Incident"?

Accepted Answer

FD fainted from heat exhaustion

Question 11

Why happened at the shipyard that made FD have to leave?

Accepted Answer

The white workers beat up FD and werent going to be arrested

Question 12

FD didn't let Mr. Covey tie him up, but instead fought him. How did the fight end?

Accepted Answer

FD choked Mr. Covey and won the fight

Question 13

Why didn't Mr. Auld want Frederick Douglass to learn how to read?

Accepted Answer

Because reading would make FD unhappy with being a slave

Question 14

What is "Lynch Law"?

Accepted Answer

Lots of men killing a person because they decide he's guilty

Question 15

What would Mr. Covey do to his slaves?

Accepted Answer

All of the answers are correct

Question 16

When FD when to work for Mr. Covey, what was his new job?

Accepted Answer

A field hand

Question 17

What happened to the black man who threatened to turn in a run away slave?

Accepted Answer

Both answers are correct

Question 18

What did Frederick Douglass say happened to him after he won the fight?

Accepted Answer

He was made a man again.

Question 19

Who did FD work for after he left Mr. Covey?

Accepted Answer

Mr. Freeland

Question 20

Who was Mr. Covey?

Accepted Answer

A "snake in the grass", A poor slave-owner

Question 21

Did FD escape with the other slaves?

Accepted Answer

No-- they were caught before they could go

Question 22

Why didn't Mr. Covey just have Frederick Douglass killed?

Accepted Answer

He was embarrassed that Frederick Douglass won.

Question 23

What did Frederick Douglass do on Sundays, his day off?

Accepted Answer

sat under a tree exhausted, just staring

Question 24

What did his friend Sandy tell him to do?

Accepted Answer

Put a root in his pocket so he wouldn't get whipped

Question 25

What did Mrs. Auld teach Frederick Douglass?

Accepted Answer

The ABCs, To read a few short words

Question 26

When FD returned with the root in his pocket, what happened?

Accepted Answer

Mr. Covey tried to tie up FD for leaving and not working

Question 27

What happened after he got sick?

Accepted Answer

Mr. Covey beat Frederick Douglass

Question 28

Who was Frederick Douglass?

Accepted Answer

An abolitionist, A former slave

Question 29

What is a plantation?

Accepted Answer

A big house with crops growing around it that slaves harvest

Question 30

What happened instead?

Accepted Answer

He ran errands for the white workers

Question 31

What is he supposed to learn from Mr. Gardener?

Accepted Answer

To caulk ships

Question 32

After FD told his master what Mr. Covey did to him, how did his master respond?

Accepted Answer

He told him to get back to work

Question 33

How did FD end up escaping?

Accepted Answer

He doesn't tell us in this story

Question 34

What happened to FD once he was caught?

Accepted Answer

He was sent to work for Mr. Price at a shipyard, He was put in jail for a while

Question 35

What did FD do at Mr. Freeland's farm?

Accepted Answer

All of these are correct

Question 36

What did Frederick Douglass end up doing with the rest of his life?

Accepted Answer

Speaking at anti-slavery meetings working as an abolitionist

Question 37

Which is the MAIN reason Frederick Douglass was "rented" to Mr. Covey?

Accepted Answer

To be "broken" (he was too unruly for his actual master)

Question 38

What was "The Incident" that changed the relationship between Frederick Douglass and Mr. Covey?

Accepted Answer

FD didn't let Mr. Covey whip him, and instead fought back

Question 39

Mr. Covey truly believed he was a good and religious man (true/false)

Accepted Answer

True

Question 40

What was surprising to FD about being in a free state?

Accepted Answer

How wealthy everyone was without slaves

Question 41

Where does FD escape to?

Accepted Answer

New York

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