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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 "abolitionist" mean?
(a) Someone who works to make laws for slaveholders stronger.
(b) Someone who wants all slaves in the North free.
(c) A person from the south who is fighting to keep slavery laws intact.
(d) Someone who wants to get rid of slavery.

2. What is William Lloyd Garrison well-known for being?
(a) A slave master.
(b) A slave.
(c) An abolitionist.
(d) A Civil War soldier.

3. What do the white sails of the ships mentioned in the second Preface symbolize?
(a) Calm.
(b) Peace.
(c) Goodness.
(d) Godliness.

4. What is the year that Douglass remembers moving in the beginning of Chapter 9?
(a) 1812.
(b) 1860.
(c) 1891.
(d) 1832.

5. What did the Colonel often do when the slaves disrespected him?
(a) He reduced their water supply.
(b) He killed them.
(c) He withheld food.
(d) He traded them away.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the slave master who replaced Mr. Hopkins want to do?

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

3. Which relatives' names does Douglass know?

4. Where did Douglass sleep while working on the plantation as a child?

5. What did the slave master who replaced Mr. Hopkins demand from the slaves?

(see the answer key)

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