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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author of the second Preface compare slaves to?
(a) Rocks.
(b) Animals.
(c) Tools.
(d) Machines.

2. What does Frederick Douglass say disgusts him in Chapter 1?
(a) The murder of innocent people.
(b) Slaves being removed from their families.
(c) Slaves being sold in cities.
(d) Slaveholders forcing themselves on slave women, then having children with them.

3. What is the "West Indies Experiment?"
(a) An experiment to keep slave families together.
(b) An experiment to see if slaves that were freed would be just as productive as the slaves who were not.
(c) An experiment to test working conditions on plantations.
(d) An experiment to make white people slaves.

4. What rumor does Douglass relate about himself in Chapter 1?
(a) His father was a white man.
(b) His father was a doctor.
(c) His father was a Civil War soldier.
(d) His father was a lawyer.

5. How many shirts did each working slave get for a year?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the second Preface written?

2. How many years was Daniel O'Connell a slave in Africa?

3. What is the name of the newspaper Garrison published?

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

5. What did the slaves produce on the main farm besides tobacco and corn?

(see the answer key)

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