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Quotation Marks Quiz
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The following is the original source cited in the sentences below:

During these leisure times, those old notions about freedom would steal over me again. When in Mr. Gardner's employment, I was kept in such a perpetual whirl of excitement, I could think of nothing, scarcely, but my life; and in thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty. I have observed this in my experience of slavery—that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason. He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery; he must be made to feel that slavery is right; and he can be brought to that only when he ceases to be a man.

This is the works cited page entry for the paragraph above:

Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. 1845. Ed. Philip Smith. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1995.

(The quotation begins on p. 58; the last words on that page are "He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery; he must be made to feel"; the rest of the quotation is on p. 59.)

Correct each of the following excerpts from the paragraph above, making sure to add any missing quotation marks in the appropriate places and to include any other material needed to conform to correct MLA, APA, Chicago, CSE, or other documentation style. The parenthetical citations here use MLA style, which you may alter as needed for the documentation style you are using.

The answers are documented using correct MLA style. If you are using another documentation style, check to be sure that you have cited the quotation correctly. In some cases, more than one correct response is possible.

1

Douglass argues that to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one (58).

2

To accept his condition, a slave should detect no inconsistencies in the slaveholding system.

3

It is necessary to annihilate the power of reason to make slaves feel contented, notes Douglass (58).

4

Douglass recalls, "When in Mr. Gardner's employment, I was kept in such a perpetual whirl of excitement, I could think of nothing, scarcely, but my life; I almost forgot my liberty." (58).

5

Douglass points out that the moral and mental vision of a slave must be dulled to prevent discontentment from setting in (58).








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