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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. What did Master Thomas believe had marred Douglass as a slave?
(a) His abiilty to read and write.
(b) His time in the city.
(c) His love for his family.
(d) His time on the plantation.

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

3. What was Douglass's job on Mr. Covey's farm?
(a) A field worker.
(b) Taking care of barn animals.
(c) Caring for the slaveholder's family.
(d) Repairing the barn.

4. What plan did Douglass decide not to give up on by the end of Chapter 8?
(a) To learn to read.
(b) To learn to write.
(c) To be free.
(d) To help his grandmother.

5. What did Mr. Covey do to keep the slaves working all the time?
(a) Snuck up on them.
(b) Gave them bonuses.
(c) Yelled from a loudspeaker.
(d) Let them sleep longer if they worked more.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the slave trainer that Douglass was lent to for a year get a female slave for?

2. When were the slaves able to rest on Mr. Covey's farm?

3. Where was Douglass supposed to look while talking to the master's wife at his new home in Chapter 6?

4. Who did Douglass say the slaveholders felt they were protected by, according to his narrative in Chapter 9?

5. What did Douglass trade to learn new written words?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Douglass say he sees more clearly the results of slavery in Chapter 8?

2. Why did Douglass want to learn to write? How did he go about accomplishing that objective?

3. What does Douglass describe having experienced for the first time in Chapter 9?

4. Why did Douglass decide to learn to read?

5. How did Douglass learn to read?

6. Define abolitionist and the effect on Douglass of learning the word.

7. Why did Douglass begin to see his learning to read as a curse?

8. What was the difference between a slave in the country versus one in the city that Douglass discovered?

9. Explain the hopefulness of Douglass in Chapter 5.

10. Describe a separation that Douglass goes through in Chapter 8.

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