Frederick Douglass question and answer for class 11. Notes of the lesson Frederick Douglass for first PUC students.
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Frederick Douglass question and answer for class 11
Comprehension I:
1. What prevented the slaves from knowing their birth days?
Answer: He has not seen any authentic record containing it.
2. How would the master look at the enquiries about the slaves’ birthday?
Answer: The white master’s deemed all enquiries about the slaves’ birthday as improper and impertinent.
3. What was whispered about Douglass’ parentage?
Answer: Rumour was that the Master of Douglass, Captain Anthony himself was his father.
4. When was Douglass separated from his mother?
Answer: When he was an infant he was separated from his mother.
5. Douglass’ mother was able to meet him only at _________.
Answer: at night.
6. What was the penalty to the field hand for not being in the field at sunrise?
Answer: Whipping is the penalty to the field hand for not being in the field at sunrise.
7. How old was Douglass when he lost his mother?
Answer: Douglass was seven years old when he lost his mother.
8. Name the person who was believed to be both Douglass’ father and master.
Answer: Anthony was the name of Douglass’ father and master.
9. What was Mr. Plummer?
Answer: Mr. Plummer was a miserable drunkard, a profane swearer, and a savage monster.
Comprehension II:
1. Why wasn’t Douglass affected much by his mother’s death?
Answer: He never saw his mother more than four or five times in his life; and each of these times was very short in duration, and at night. He’d not recollect of ever seeing his mother by the light of day. She was with him in the night. She would lie down with him. And get him to sleep, but long before He woke she was gone. Very little communication ever took place between them.
Notes of the lesson Frederick Douglass for first PUC
Comprehension III:
1. What kind of hardships did the slave suffer at the hands of the slaveholder and his mistress?
Answer: The slaveholder lived as a miserable drunkard and a savage monster. He always carried a cow skin and a heavy cudgel. The speaker often saw him cut and slash the women’s heads so horribly that even the master grew enraged at his cruelty and threatened to whip him if he didn’t control himself. At times, he seemed to take great pleasure in whipping a slave. He often beat my own aunt, tying her to a joist and whipping her naked back until blood literally covered her.
2. How does the passage comment on the dreadful experience of slavery?
Answer: It is a miserable experience being a slave. The author was not seeing his mother very often even he never saw his mother, more than four or five times in his life. That woman lived about twelve-miles from his home and was hired by Mr. Stewart. She came to meet him very rarely; only in the night she made her travel to see him on foot and She was afield hand, and whipping is the penalty of not being in the field at sunrise. She seldom gets the permission. It is like a burning hell to live under slavery.
3. In spite of the hardships he suffered as a slave, why does the author say, ‘slavery would not always be able to hold me within its foul embrace’?
Frederick Douglass for class 11
Answer: ‘Slavery would not always be able to hold me within its foul embrace’ this is the living word of faith and spirit of hope departed not from him, but he remained like ministering angels to cheer him through the gloom. This truly led him to go out of his slavery and be a model for all the slaves. He became the first one who was writing an autobiography on his own life. His faith had taken him a leader and a model for others. Through his power of words there were many changes taken place in the country.
4. What motivated him to get rid of slavery from his life?
Answer: ‘Slavery would not always be able to hold me within its foul embrace’. This living word of faith and spirit of hope helped him to become a successful person. That is why he got freedom from the whites.
5. What are the biographical works of Douglass?
Answer: Narrative of the life of Frederick, My bondage and my freedom and life and times of Frederick Douglass are the biographical works of Douglass.
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