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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the possible real reason that the female slave was beaten?
(a) She stole some food.
(b) She is found with a male slave and her master was jealous.
(c) She was disobedent.
(d) She ran away, but was later caught.

2. How many house servants did Colonel Lloyd have?
(a) 20-25.
(b) 8-10.
(c) 10-15.
(d) 5-10.

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

4. What did Douglass vow to do during Chapter 6?
(a) Learn to count money.
(b) Earn his freedom.
(c) Go to school.
(d) Learn to read.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What event did the author of the second Preface predict?

2. What body of water does Phillips say Douglass has seen the ships sailing on in the second Preface?

3. Who does Douglass begin Chapter 1 talking about?

4. How old does Douglass write that he thinks he is in the first Chapter?

5. What type of writing is the second Preface?

(see the answer key)

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