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From Chapter 1: This is what masters deliberately destroyed between slave children and their mothers to maintain control.
Answer: What is affection (or emotional bonds)?
From Chapter 1, Douglass calls Aunt Hester's whipping this type of "gate" to slavery.
Answer: What is blood-stained?
From Chapter 2, This is what Douglass calls Colonel Lloyd's plantation that sets up the chapter's focus.
Answer: What is Great House Farm?
From Chapter 2, This is what Douglass says slave songs actually represented, contrary to popular belief.
Answer: What is sorrow (or suffering)?
Using context clues from Chapter 2, what does "reverberate" mean in the sentence: "they would make the dense old woods, for miles around, reverberate with their wild songs"?
What is to echo or resound
From Chapter 4, This overseer was described as taking "no pleasure" in whipping, unlike his successor.
Answer: Who is Mr. Hopkins?
From Chapter 7, This measurement represents the small opportunity his mistress gave him by teaching the alphabet.
Answer: What is an inch?
From Chapter 5, This is what Douglass credits for his selection to go to Baltimore.
Answer: What is divine providence?
From Chapter 3, This substance Colonel Lloyd used to catch garden thieves shows his controlling nature.
Answer: What is tar?
Based on context from Chapter 4, what does "obdurate" mean when Douglass describes Mr. Gore as "obdurate enough to be insensible to the voice of a reproving conscience"?
What is stubbornly unyielding or hardened
From Chapter 7, This is what Douglass says slavery transformed his kind mistress's "tender heart" into.
Answer: What is stone?
From Chapter 7, This musical instrument metaphorically "roused" Douglass's soul to eternal wakefulness about freedom.
Answer: What is a silver trump (or trumpet)?
From Chapter 4, This slave's murder by Mr. Gore demonstrates the overseer's calculated cruelty.
Answer: Who is Demby?
From Chapter 4, This is Mr. Gore's justification for killing Demby that Douglass presents to show systemic racism.
Answer: What is maintaining order (or preventing rebellion)?
Using context clues from Chapter 7, determine the meaning of "stratagems" in "I was compelled to resort to various stratagems when learning to read."
What is clever schemes or tactics
From Chapter 6 & 7, This city provided Douglass with educational opportunities unavailable on the plantation.
Answer: What is Baltimore?
From Chapter 7, This is what Douglass says slavery made his mistress's "lamblike disposition" become.
Answer: What is tiger-like?
From Chapter 7, These workers, unknowingly, taught Douglass letters by marking timber in the shipyard.
Answer: Who are ship carpenters?
From Chapter 6, This is what Mr. Auld said education would make Douglass, which Douglass actually desired.
Answer: What is unmanageable?
Analyze the context, from Chapter 6, to determine what "servility" means in "The crouching servility, usually so acceptable a quality in a slave, did not answer when manifested toward her."
What is excessive willingness to serve or please
From Chapters 1-7, This pattern Douglass shows through different overseers demonstrates slavery's systematic nature.
Answer: What is escalating brutality (or increasing cruelty)?
From Chapter 7, This type of "bread" the white children gave Douglass in exchange for actual bread.
Answer: What is knowledge?
From Chapter 6, This is the sequence Douglass uses to show his mistress's transformation: kind woman to this.
Answer: What is a demon?
From Chapters 1-7, This dual perspective allows Douglass to counter pro-slavery arguments effectively.
Answer: What is former slave and educated narrator?
Using multiple context clues from Chapter 1, explain what "chattel" means when Douglass writes about his mistress not perceiving "that I sustained to her the relation of a mere chattel."
What is personal property