Abolition and Women’s Rights Movements, Part 1 — Quiz
Question 2 • Language Arts 11
Read the excerpt from "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Must I argue the wrongfulness of slavery? Is that a question for Republicans? Is it to be settled by the rules of logic and argumentation, as a matter beset with great difficulty, involving a doubtful application of the principle of justice, hard to be understood? What do the rhetorical questions in the excerpt suggest?
Answer
A
Slavery is a highly divisive and complicated issue.
B
Douglass is uncertain about slavery’s wrongfulness.
C
Douglass does not want to discuss slavery further.
D
The wrongfulness of slavery should be obvious.
Explanation
Douglass asks whether slavery’s wrongfulness is really a question that needs to be debated or worked out through complicated logic. The rhetorical questions imply that the answer is already clear: slavery is unjust and wrong. So the excerpt supports choice D, “The wrongfulness of slavery should be obvious.”
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