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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the slave master who replaced Mr. Hopkins demand from the slaves?
(a) Honesty.
(b) Obedience.
(c) Food.
(d) Money.

2. Who did Phillips watch being dragged off to be lynched, according to his narrative in the second Preface?
(a) Daniel O'Connell.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) William Lloyd Garrison.
(d) James McAlister.

3. What does Frederick Douglass say disgusts him in Chapter 1?
(a) Slaves being sold in cities.
(b) Slaveholders forcing themselves on slave women, then having children with them.
(c) The murder of innocent people.
(d) Slaves being removed from their families.

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

5. What rumor does Douglass relate about himself in Chapter 1?
(a) His father was a lawyer.
(b) His father was a doctor.
(c) His father was a white man.
(d) His father was a Civil War soldier.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Wendell Phillips do for a living?

2. What happened when Phillips went to the police about issues related to slavery?

3. What has stayed in Douglass's memory for the rest of his life, according to his narrative in Chapter 2?

4. Who was Colonel Edward Lloyd?

5. Garrison builds up Douglass as an icon of what movement in the Preface?

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