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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Douglass describe in detail in Chapter 2?
(a) His mother and her parents.
(b) His aunts and uncles.
(c) His first masters and the farms he lived on.
(d) His brother and sisters.

3. Which relatives' names does Douglass know?
(a) His father and his parents.
(b) His mother and her parents.
(c) His father and his uncle.
(d) His mother and his aunt.

4. What did the slaves produce on the main farm besides tobacco and corn?
(a) Cotton.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Wheat.
(d) Squash.

5. In what city in Massachusetts did Garrison hear the speech about slavery that is described in the Preface?
(a) Boston.
(b) Springfield.
(c) Plymouth.
(d) Nantucket.

Short Answer Questions

1. Garrison refers to Douglas as a man with what, in his Preface (x)?

2. When was the opening Preface written?

3. Garrison asks the reader for sympathy for whom in the Preface?

4. In what state was Frederick Douglass born?

5. What is Douglass irritated with his mother for in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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