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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why did the slaveholder throw a female slave off the plantation in Chapter 9?
(a) She was too young to do any work.
(b) He caught her with another slave and was jealous.
(c) She was disabled from a fire.
(d) She was too old to work.

3. Garrison asks the reader for sympathy for whom in the Preface?
(a) The down-trodden victims.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) The slaveholders.
(d) Himself.

4. Which slaveholders exhibit more morality, according to Douglass in Chapter 6?
(a) The Lloyds.
(b) Southern slaveholders.
(c) The Garrisons.
(d) City slaveholders.

5. Who did Phillips watch being dragged off to be lynched, according to his narrative in the second Preface?
(a) James McAlister.
(b) William Lloyd Garrison.
(c) Frederick Douglass.
(d) Daniel O'Connell.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Frederick Douglass's first master?

2. What has stayed in Douglass's memory for the rest of his life, according to his narrative in Chapter 2?

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

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

5. Why did Douglass have to go back to his birth place in Chapter 8?

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