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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long was the food that is given to the adult slaves supposed to last?
(a) 2 months.
(b) 1 month.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) 1 week.

2. Who did Douglass have to fight with to get his daily food?
(a) Other slave children.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Pigs.
(d) All the slaves.

3. Approximately how old was Douglass when he went back to his birth place in Chapter 8?
(a) 5.
(b) 15.
(c) 17.
(d) 10.

4. What did Douglass think would help him to become a free slave when he was first sent from the plantation as a child?
(a) Moving to live with his master's relative.
(b) Doing what he's told.
(c) God's spirit living in him.
(d) The kindness of his master.

5. What does Douglass describe in detail in Chapter 2?
(a) His mother and her parents.
(b) His brother and sisters.
(c) His aunts and uncles.
(d) His first masters and the farms he lived on.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the focus of Douglass's descriptions in the beginning of Chapter 5?

2. What plan did Douglass decide not to give up on by the end of Chapter 8?

3. How many overseers were there for the farms that Colonel Edward Lloyd owns?

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

5. Why did Douglass have to go back to his birth place in Chapter 8?

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