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Abolition and Women’s Rights Movements, Part 1 Answers

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What is the purpose of this rhetorical question?

A
to highlight the contradiction between the Declaration of Independence and slavery
B
to discuss liberty and equality experienced by all people under the Declaration of Independence
C
to encourage audience participation in the argument about the Declaration of Independence
D
to illustrate that the Declaration of Independence does not state that people are entitled to liberty
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Check all the points you included in your answer.

A
to intensify the point of the celebration
B
to emphasize enslaved people’s lack of liberty
C
to contrast free people and enslaved people
D
to accuse free Americans of dishonesty
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The first sentence is an example of .

A
a rhetorical question
B
parallelism
C
irony
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Douglass contrasts the typical American’s view of the Fourth of July with enslaved people’s view of the same occasion. What effect did this likely have on white readers?

A
It likely made them question the literal definition of independence.
B
It likely made them recognize their own hypocrisy in celebrating the holiday.
C
It likely made them examine the Declaration of Independence more closely.
D
It likely made them become deeply saddened by the brutality of slaveholders.
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Douglass’s use of the pronoun “your” in this passage is an example of .

A
irony
B
a rhetorical question
C
parallelism

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