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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many slaves were at the main farm?
(a) 300-400.
(b) 10-20.
(c) 100-200.
(d) 30-40.

3. Why did the Colonel put tar on the fence?
(a) To ruin the slaves' only clothes if they try to climb it.
(b) To know if the slaves tried to escape.
(c) To identify any slave that attempted to steal.
(d) To keep the animals away.

4. What has stayed in Douglass's memory for the rest of his life, according to his narrative in Chapter 2?
(a) The emotional impact of babies being taken from their mothers.
(b) The emotional impact of the songs the slaves sing.
(c) The images of slaves being hung.
(d) The images of the slaves being beaten.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Douglass sent to live in order to help a relative of his master?

2. What did Douglass use of Master Thomas's to help him write?

3. What did Wendell Phillips do for a living?

4. What does Frederick Douglass say disgusts him in Chapter 1?

5. How was Douglass's new master in Chapter 9 different than Douglass' previous owners?

(see the answer key)

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