10. Document Project 10: Lives in Slavery

Quiz for Document 10.5 William Wells Brown, Memories of Childhood

Quiz for Document 10.5: William Wells Brown, Memories of Childhood

Choose the best answer for each question.

1. Which of the following accurately describes slavery according to Brown’s memories?

Slaves preferred to work in the fields over the house.

Slave experiences varied based on a variety of factors.

All owners spared the rod to encourage loyalty.

Overseers had more power than slave owners.

2. Which can be implied about Brown’s experience based on his description of the “negro-whip”?

It likely scarred him physically and mentally.

He made them for the slave overseer.

He had to use it to whip other slaves.

He was not afraid of it at all.

3. What emotional sense dominates Brown’s narrative?

Anger

Revenge

Contentment

Helplessness

4. In William Wells Brown’s narrative what aspect of slavery is most pronounced?

Separation of families across long distances

Long and torturous hours laboring in the fields

Poor diets and living conditions of slaves

Inability of kin to save one another from violence

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