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Senior Exam review

Essay questions:
Describe the relationship that Christianity has in FD. Make sure to delineate both its positive effects and its negative repercussions.

When Frederick Douglass was a teenager, he had a friend who persuaded him to carry in his pocket a particular plant root that would prevent his ever being whipped again. When Douglass had a battle with his overseer, Mr. Covey, and was victorious, he gained a new perspective. Explain the effect the special root had on Douglass, what changes took place in his resoluteness, and why the incident was a turning point in his life as a slave.

The keeping of black slaves by whites was considered a sign of the white race’s power and intelligence. Enslaving men and women by keeping them from being educated, according to Douglass, gave the masters a responsibility. What was this responsibility? Explain how Douglass shows that this responsibility was part of the elimination of slavery, and what role people like Frederick Douglass had in its abolition.

Write a character analysis that explores how Gene grows and changes during the course of the novel, ASP. Do you believe that Gene has found peace with himself at the end of the novel? Why or why not? Support your opinions with quotations and other evidence from the novel. 

Presentation Rubric

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A Separate Peace Study Guide, ch 1-10, Due Wednesday, 5-4-11

1.  At what time of year does Gene return to Devon to visit? What atmosphere, or mood, is created by setting the story during this season? What do Gene’s descriptions of the season suggest about his state of mind?

2.   Describe Finny’s relationship with his teachers. What does the teachers’ attitude toward Finny suggest about his personality?

3.  Gene believes blitzball is a perfect game for Finny. Explain how the game is played. How do the rules of the game and the skills needed to play it reflect Finny’s character?

4.  Describe the awards Finny has won. What record does he break? What do the awards and his refusal to make his accomplishment public suggest about him?

5.  After the overnight trip to the beach, what does Gene decide Finny is trying to do to him? What leads Gene to this conclusion? How does Gene feel when he realizes he is wrong?

6.  Evaluate Finny’s response to his injury and Gene’s revelation. Is the response believable? Is it consistent with Finny’s previous attitudes and behavior? Support your opinions with evidence from the novel.

7.  How did Gene deal with his friendship with Finny after the accident? Would you have done anything differently? Why or why not?

8.  What does Gene do when Quackenbush accuses him of being maimed? What motivates Gene to respond this way? In what sense might Gene be maimed?

9.  Contrast the mood at Devon during the summer session and fall session. Identify at least three factors that might account for this change in mood.

10.                      What is Finny’s theory about the war? How might his injury influence his feelings toward the war?

11.                      Why is it surprising that Elwin (Leper) Lepellier is the first Devon boy to enlist? In what ways is he different from the other boys who talk of enlisting?

12.                      In this section, what details does the author use to show the ways in which war is changing the atmosphere at Devon?

RUBRIC

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FD Appendix Study Guide, due 4-8-11

1. Why do you think Douglass added the appendix?
2. What does he mean by “slaveholding religion”?
3. Why does Douglass contend that the church turns the other cheek on the treatment of slaves?
4. How does he compare the slaveholding Christians to the Pharisees and ancient scribes?
5. How does he criticize the church of the north?

QUOTES - You do not have to explain each quote. Instead, use these quotes to summarize, in one paragraph, FD's feelings on religion and slavery.

“Between the Christianity of this land, and the Christianity of Christ, I recognized the widest possible difference-so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked. To be the friend of the one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other. I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land” (p. 120).

“The slave prison and the church stand near each other. The clanking of fetters and the rattling of chains in the prison, and the pious psalm and solemn prayer in the church, may be heard at the same time” (p. 121).

“The dealer gives his blood-stained gold to support the pulpit, and the pulpit, in return, covers his infernal business with the garb of Christianity” (p. 121).

“They would be shocked at the proposition of fellowshipping a sheep-stealer; and at the same time they hug to their communion a man-stealer” (p. 123).

“They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of law, judgment, mercy, and faith” (p. 123).

“They are they who are represented as professing to love God whom they have not seen, whilst they hate their brother whom they have seen” (p. 123).

“They love the heathen on the other side of the globe. They can pray for him, pay money to have the Bible put into his hand, and missionaries to instruct him; while they despise and totally neglect the heathen at their own doors” (p. 123).

FD Ch 11 Study Guide, Due 4-8-11

30 Points

1. For what two reasons does Frederick tell us that he cannot relate the means of his escape?
2. Why does he not approve of the underground railroad?
3. What does Master Hugh do to attempt to encourage Frederick to continue to earn money? What effect does his
4. encouragement have?
5. What does Frederick ask of Master Thomas? What is he told?
6. What arrangement does Frederick eventually make with Master Hugh? Why is this arrangement to Master Hugh’s
7. advantage? Why does Frederick agree to it?
8. What does Master Hugh do when he discovers that Frederick has left town to find work?
9. Why does Frederick decide to work hard despite the dissolution of their agreement?
10. When and to where does Frederick run away?
11. Why does he feel so lonely?
12. Who helps Frederick in New York? How?
13. How is it possible for Frederick and Anna to marry? Why is their marriage such an important event?
14. Why does Mr. Ruggles suggest that Frederick not stay in New York and go to New Bedford, Massachusetts?
15. Who helps Frederick and Anna in New Bedford? What does he do for them?
16. Why did Frederick change his name so many times? Who chooses Douglass? Why?
17. What had Douglass believed about life in the North? Was he correct? What does he find about life in the North?
18. How were the wharves in New Bedford different from those in Baltimore?
19. What conditions did he find for “colored people”?
20. What does Douglass discover about prejudice against color in New Bedford?
21. How does Douglass make a living when he can’t find work as a caulker?
22. How does Douglass become known to the “anti-slavery world”?
23. Why is Douglass at first reluctant to speak out against slavery?