Part A

Which statement is a central idea in Chapter 6 of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass?


Education is often provided to enslaved people by the women of the house.

Enslaved people struggle to see kindness in their slaveholders.

The culture of slavery is not the same everywhere.

If enslaved people follow orders without question, they are treated well.
Question 2
Part B

Which two statements from the text best support the answer in Part A?


“That cheerful eye, under the influence of slavery, soon became red with rage; that voice, made all of sweet accord, changed to one of harsh and horrid discord.”

“Few are willing to incur the odium attaching to the reputation of being a cruel master; and above all things, they would not be known as not giving a slave enough to eat.”

"A city slave is almost a freeman, compared with a slave on the plantation."

“It was a new and special revelation, explaining dark and mysterious things, with which my youthful understanding had struggled, but struggled in vain.”

“And of all the mangled and emaciated creatures I ever looked upon, these two were the most so. His heart must be harder than stone, that could look upon these unmoved.”