Thousands would escape . . . but for the strong cords of affection that bind them to their friends.

What is the effect of the figurative language in this passage?

Question 7 options:

It helps the reader understand that love and friendship make slaves feel trapped.


It helps the reader understand that a slave's friends and family often put pressure on them not to escape.


It helps the reader understand that an escaped slave can always be kidnapped and returned to his owner.


It helps the reader understand how precious friends and family are to slaves.

The paper became my meat and my drink. My soul was set all on fire.

This passage uses figurative language to convey:

Question 8 options:

How inspired Douglass feels to read the words of others who agree with him.


How hungry Douglass feels.


How angry he feels when reading pro-slavery editorials.


How passionate Douglass feels about his wife.

Douglass has decided that he is already free, even if he is not free legally.

Which passage supports this inference?

Question 9 options:

He spoke to me very kindly, bade me drive the pigs from a lot near by, and passed on towards the church.


After threatening me thus, he [Master Thomas] gave me a very large dose of salts, telling me that I might remain in St. Michael's that night, (it being quite late,) but that I must be off back to Mr. Covey's early in the morning; and that if I did not, he would get hold of me, which meant that he would whip me.


From this time I was never again what might be called fairly whipped, though I remained a slave four years afterwards.


I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact.