Unit Test

Question 1

Evaluate the reasoning Douglass uses in the passage by determining whether the conclusion is valid or invalid.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Douglass’s conclusion is valid. The evidence that enslaved people were denied liberty and equality supports his claim that the Fourth of July celebration is a sham and a mockery to them.

Question 2

Which points did you discuss in your answer? Check all of the boxes that apply.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

The evidence leads to the conclusion.; The generalization follows logically from the specific observations.

Question 3

What is the purpose of this rhetorical question?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

to highlight the contradiction between the Declaration of Independence and slavery

Question 4

The first sentence is an example of .

Revolt · Accepted Answer

a rhetorical question

Question 5

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?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

It likely made them recognize their own hypocrisy in celebrating the holiday.

Question 6

Douglass’s use of the pronoun “your” in this passage is an example of .

Revolt · Accepted Answer

parallelism

Question 7

Check all the points you included in your answer.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

to intensify the point of the celebration; to emphasize enslaved people’s lack of liberty; to contrast free people and enslaved people; to accuse free Americans of dishonesty

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