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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Douglass remark about city slaves versus country slaves in Chapter 6?
(a) City slaves are treated worse.
(b) City slaves are given opportunities to be free.
(c) City slaves are treated better.
(d) City slaves are treated equally as country slaves.

2. When was the second Preface written?
(a) 1818.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1835.
(d) 1894.

3. What does Douglass focus on describing in Chapter 3?
(a) The punishments slaves endure.
(b) Slave families attempt at staying together.
(c) The luxuries of slaveholders .
(d) His teenage years.

4. Wendell Phillips was the son of a mayor of what city in Massachusetts?
(a) Springfield.
(b) Plymouth.
(c) Boston.
(d) Nantucket.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Phillips say he did while reading what Douglass had written?

2. What did the slave master tell his wife regarding not teaching slaves to read?

3. What weapon does Douglass say Mr. Lanman used to kill one of two slaves?

4. How many slaves did Colonel Lloyd have in total?

5. What extreme example does Douglass give in Chapter 4 of what slaveholders are able to get away with?

(see the answer key)

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