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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Douglass compare the way slaves are treated to?
(a) Uneducated people.
(b) Animals.
(c) Children.
(d) Mules.

2. What does Phillips say he did while reading what Douglass had written?
(a) Shook.
(b) Laughed.
(c) Cried.
(d) Trembled.

3. Garrison refers to Douglas as a man with what, in his Preface (x)?
(a) "High regard."
(b) "Commanding stature."
(c) "Little hope."
(d) "A body ravaged by time."

4. What was the name of the overseer who Douglass describes as cursing all day and whose death was seen as a blessing in Chapter 2?
(a) Mr. Anthony.
(b) Mr. Severe.
(c) Mr. Hopkins.
(d) Mr. Lloyd.

5. What happened to Douglass at the end of Chapter 9?
(a) He ran away.
(b) He was lent to a slaveholder to be taught how to obey.
(c) He was sold to a new master.
(d) He was traded to a new master for a horse.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many shirts did each working slave get for a year?

2. What plan did Douglass decide not to give up on by the end of Chapter 8?

3. How many slaves were at the main farm?

4. In what time period of his life does Douglass's detailed descriptions in Chapter 2 take place?

5. What does Douglass describe in detail in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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