Who wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass?

• A. James Baldwin
• B. Frederick Douglass
• C. W.E.B. Du Bois
• D. Booker T. Washington

Answer: (B)

The main idea here is identifying who wrote a famous autobiographical account about life in slavery and the path to abolition. This narrative is told in the first person and recounts the author’s own experiences—being enslaved, learning to read, making an escape, and later becoming a leading abolitionist. It was published in 1845 and is best known by its full title, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Because the voice and events come from Frederick Douglass’s own life, the author is Frederick Douglass. The other figures listed are notable writers who produced important works in different times, but they did not author this memoir.