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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Garrison asks the reader for sympathy for whom in the Preface?
(a) Frederick Douglass.
(b) The slaveholders.
(c) Himself.
(d) The down-trodden victims.
2. When was the second Preface written?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1818.
(c) 1894.
(d) 1835.
3. When did William Lloyd Garrison see the abolitionist speech described in the Preface?
(a) 1862.
(b) 1841.
(c) 1859.
(d) 1835.
4. What did the father and son slave team take care of on the Colonel's farm, according to Douglass's narrative in Chapter 3?
(a) The garden.
(b) The carriages, horses, and stables.
(c) The cows and other farm animals.
(d) The pool.
5. What does Douglass focus on describing in Chapter 3?
(a) The punishments slaves endure.
(b) The luxuries of slaveholders .
(c) His teenage years.
(d) Slave families attempt at staying together.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which relatives' names does Douglass know?
2. What did the slaves produce on the main farm besides tobacco and corn?
3. What event did the author of the second Preface predict?
4. How many overseers were there for the farms that Colonel Edward Lloyd owns?
5. What has stayed in Douglass's memory for the rest of his life, according to his narrative in Chapter 2?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
2. What was the punishment, if any, for killing a slave at this time in history?
3. What does Douglass mention in particular about the slaves suffering in Chapter 2?
4. Why does Garrison's Preface seem somewhat like a religious sermon?
5. What is the importance of the songs of the slaves in Chapter 2?
6. Why did the slaves claim that their master was better than other slaves' masters?
7. What upsets Douglass about his mother's death?
8. What was the West Indies Experiment?
9. Why is Douglass so concerned about his age in Chapter 1?
10. How does Douglass describe the treatment of mulatto slaves in Chapter 1?
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