This assignment is best completed as a whole class. It isn't made for students to work on it independently.
Read the essay together with the rest of the class and answer the questions as we read.
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Question 5
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Define the bolded word. (denounce)
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Question 7
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Define the bolded word. (conceded)
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Question 9
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Question 1
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Define the bolded word. (obdurate)
Question 2
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Define the bolded word. (stolid)
Question 3
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Define the bolded word. (disparity)
Question 4
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How does Douglass's opening reference to the Declaration of Independence reinforce his message?
Question 6
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Define the bolded word. (equivocate)
Question 8
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PART A
In paragraph 5, what does Douglass acknowledge as a counterargument to his position?
Question 10
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PART B
What evidence and ideas does Douglass offer to refute the counterargument from question 8?
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Question 12
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Question 14
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What main thesis, or claim, shapes Douglass's speech?
Question 15
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Which of the following is NOT a reason that the government already acknowledges that slaves are human?
There are 72 crimes that are punishable by death in Virginia.
Slaves are forbidden to read and write.
Animals treat slaves as humans.
Slaves are now considered human beings by law.
Which of the following does Douglass NOT say regarding slavery?
There is no doubt that slaves are equally human as their owners.
Men who have been worked liked beasts come to act like them.
Slavery comes from men, not from God, and is not blessed by God.
It is easy to understand why slavery is morally wrong and unjust.
Which statement most clearly supports the idea that Douglass’s purpose is not to educate people about the evils of slavery but to spur action to stop it?
Paragraph 7: There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven that does not know that slavery is wrong for him.
Paragraph 8: Must I argue that a system thus marked with blood, and stained with pollution, is wrong?
Paragraph 10: For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder.
Paragraph 11: There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States,…
When Douglass mentions “the forces in operation” in Paragraph 12, he is most likely referring to
speeches like this one presented by the Anti-Slavery Society.
the abolition movement and the underground railroad.
the Westward Expansion of the United States.
special forces of covert agents that will disrupt slave trading.
What to the slave is the Fourth of July, according to the text?—what answer does Douglass provide?
It is hypocrisy, a day which reveals to them the injustices of United States history, both past and present.
It is a celebration of national independence.
It represents the hope that they may one day be freed.
Nothing: this holiday holds no meaning to enslaved persons.
