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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Wendell Phillips do for a living?
(a) He was a soldier.
(b) He was a publisher.
(c) He was a lawyer.
(d) He was a writer.

2. What was a teenage girl in Douglass's own family killed for?
(a) Talking to the masters children.
(b) Falling asleep while babysitting.
(c) Not properly cleaning the kitchen.
(d) Feeding the house animals too much.

3. Who was Slave Master Mr. Hopkins replaced with?
(a) Mr. Gore.
(b) Mr. Severe.
(c) Mr. Silas.
(d) Mr. Anthony.

4. What did the slave master tell his wife regarding not teaching slaves to read?
(a) All are correct.
(b) He said they would be unmanageable.
(c) He said that it is not safe.
(d) He said that it was against the law.

5. What body of water does Phillips say Douglass has seen the ships sailing on in the second Preface?
(a) The Boston Harbor.
(b) Cape Cod.
(c) The Chesapeake Bay.
(d) The Atlantic Ocean.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state was Frederick Douglass born?

2. What was Colonel Lloyd obsessed with, according to the narrative in Chapter 3?

3. What were the ships Phillips describes in the second Preface carrying?

4. What is Douglass's concern in Chapter 1 symbolic for?

5. What does the author of the second Preface compare slaves to?

(see the answer key)

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