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Grade 12 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
In Incidents of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs argued freedom was harder to achieve for slave women because:
  1. they had children
  2. they were need for housework
  3. they were hard workers
  4. they lived longer
Grade 8 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl CCSS: CCRA.R.3, RL.8.3
What does the protagonist struggle with?
(May be more than one answer)
  1. Wanting to run away from her master
  2. Wanting to protect her children
  3. Wanting to make a name for herself
  4. Wanting to tell her story
Grade 8 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl CCSS: CCRA.R.3, RL.8.3
Which is NOT a tone found in this autobiography?
  1. Passionate
  2. Helpless
  3. Angry
  4. Sentimental
Grade 8 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl CCSS: CCRA.R.6, RL.8.6
How was this text most likely received by current and former slaveholders when it was published?
  1. Empowering
  2. Scandalous
  3. Dishonest
  4. Fictitious
Grade 8 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl CCSS: CCRA.R.6, RL.8.6
How was this text most likely received by current and former slaves at the time it was published?
  1. Empowering
  2. Scandalous
  3. Dishonest
  4. False
Grade 8 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl CCSS: CCRA.R.5, RL.8.5
How does the author use the stories of female slaves who have lost their children?
  1. To illustrate the grave nature of slavery
  2. To make the reader feel for the slaves
  3. To foreshadow what will happen to the narrator
  4. To honor the former slaves and their children