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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Wendell Phillips do for a living?
(a) He was a writer.
(b) He was a publisher.
(c) He was a soldier.
(d) He was a lawyer.

2. What is the writer of the second Preface famous for?
(a) Being a slave trainer.
(b) Writing.
(c) Being a slave master.
(d) Being an anti-slavery orator.

3. What did the Colonel often do when the slaves disrespected him?
(a) He traded them away.
(b) He withheld food.
(c) He reduced their water supply.
(d) He killed them.

4. What type of writing is the second Preface?
(a) A poem.
(b) A letter.
(c) An essay.
(d) A short story.

5. What did Douglass realize about education in Chapter 6?
(a) He was smart.
(b) Learning to read would help him earn money.
(c) Slavery education was legal in the North.
(d) Uneducated slaves can be controlled.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many house servants did Colonel Lloyd have?

2. While Douglass talks about slavery, what does he have flashbacks about in Chapter 1?

3. What were the ships Phillips describes in the second Preface carrying?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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