1. In which excerpt does Douglass relate his experiences as a slave in order to advance his purpose of convincing the reader of the evils of slavery?

a) That night, I fell in with Sandy Jenkins, a slave with whom I was somewhat acquainted.
b) He spoke to me very kindly, made me drive the pigs from a lot nearby, and passed on towards the church.
c) I had been at my new home but one week before Mr Covey gave me a very severe whipping, cutting my back, causing the blood to run, and raising ridges on my flesh as large as my little finger.
d) Mr Covey was one of the few slaveholders who could and did work with his hands.

2. Which passage shows Douglass’ purpose in writing this excerpt from his autobiography?

a) Mr. Covey was at the house, about one hundred yards from the trading yard where we were fanning.
b) I told him my circumstances, and he very kindly invited me to go home with him.
c) You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
d) About three o’clock of that day, I broke down; my strength failed me; I was seized with a violent aching of the head, attended with extreme dizziness; I trembled in every limb.

3. Which passage contains an example of figurative language?

a) Master Thomas ridiculed the idea that there was any danger of Mr. Covey’s killing me, and said that he knew Mr. Covey.
b) I suppose I looked like a man who had escaped a den of wild beasts, and barely escaped them.
c) I immediately started for home; and upon entering the yard gate, out came Mr. Covey on his way to meeting.
d) Long before daylight, I was called to go and rub, curry, and feed, the horses.

4. Which passage contains an example of figurative language?

a) Mr. Covey soon called out to Hughes for help.
b) With that, he strove to drag me to a stick that was lying just out of the stable door.
c) This battle with Mr. Covey was the turningpoint in my career as a slave.
d) He trembled like a leaf.

5. Which passage shows Douglass’ response to his final physical encounter, or battle with Mr. Covey?

a) It rekindled the few expiring embers of freedom, and revived within me a sense of my own manhood.
b) I again staggered and fell.
c) I was covered with blood.
d) I sept this in a sort of beastlike stupor, between sleep and wake, under some large tree.