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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What best defines what "mulatto" means?
(a) A slave child.
(b) A person who has one white parent and one blank parent.
(c) An adulterous relationship between a master and a slave.
(d) A person who is violent to slaves.

2. What does Douglass compare the way slaves are treated to?
(a) Uneducated people.
(b) Children.
(c) Animals.
(d) Mules.

3. What did the slave master who replaced Mr. Hopkins demand from the slaves?
(a) Money.
(b) Honesty.
(c) Food.
(d) Obedience.

4. When Mr. Lanman bragged about the two killings what happened?
(a) He had to set two slaves free.
(b) He went to jail for one night.
(c) Nothing.
(d) He had to pay a fine.

5. Who did Douglass's first master have as a supervisor?
(a) Mr. Grady.
(b) Mr. Phillips.
(c) Mr. Garrison.
(d) Mr. Plummer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Douglass begin Chapter 1 talking about?

2. What did the slave master who replaced Mr. Hopkins want to do?

3. Who said, "It would forever unfit him to be a slave" (29)?

4. What later happened to the person whose offices and printing presses were destroyed?

5. What does the author of the second Preface compare slaves to?

(see the answer key)

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