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

2. While Douglass talks about slavery, what does he have flashbacks about in Chapter 1?
(a) A friend who was a slave as a child.
(b) His first love.
(c) His family.
(d) His first master.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Douglass' concerned about in Chapter 1?

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

4. About what age was Douglass when his mother died?

5. What did Colonel Lloyd own that took five men to maintain?

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