Freedom or Death Reading Quiz - A & B

Which sentence below expresses a main idea of the story "Freedom or Death"? Robert Smalls met Abraham Lincoln. Piloting a ship is hard work. Robert Smalls freed himself and other slaves. It's important to keep your promises. The story says that when Robert was younger, his mother took him to see _. slave auctions the circus baseball games slaves working in cotton fields Why did Robert's mother disagree with him about escaping? No slave had ever managed to escape before. She knew that trying to escape could be dangerous. She never liked any of Robert's ideas. She thought the cold weather in the North would make them both sick. Which sentence from the story supports the answer to question 3? "Thank goodness that's not you," Robert's mother said. "Robert knew that Mr. McKee would never separate him from his mother." "He told his mother that they should run away to the Northern states where slavery was banned." "His mother explained that for every slave that managed to escape, hundreds more died or were captured and brutally punished." Why did Robert decide to break the promise that he had made to his mother? Robert was angry with his mother. Robert heard that Mr. McKee was thinking of selling him. Mr. McKee wouldn't let Robert fight in the Civil War. As a slave, Robert could be separated from his children at any time. What does stealthily mean in the sentence "They moved stealthily through the harbor..."? slowly sneakily proudly angrily