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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Douglass's concern in Chapter 1 symbolic for?
(a) Feeling helpless.
(b) Lack of control.
(c) Not being loved.
(d) Loss of his identity.

2. Which relatives' names does Douglass know?
(a) His mother and his aunt.
(b) His father and his parents.
(c) His mother and her parents.
(d) His father and his uncle.

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

4. What did Mr. Covey do in the morning and at night?
(a) Beat the slaves.
(b) Prayed.
(c) Left the farm to sell his goods.
(d) Read the newspaper.

5. What did the slaves produce on the main farm besides tobacco and corn?
(a) Wheat.
(b) Squash.
(c) Cotton.
(d) Potatoes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What caused Douglass's first beating on Mr. Covey's farm?

2. What did Douglass use to practice his writing?

3. Where did Douglass sleep while working on the plantation as a child?

4. Which master did the slaves know to be violent in Chapter 8?

5. What was the main competition among the slaves, according to the author in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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