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

2. What did Colonel Lloyd own that took five men to maintain?
(a) A large food storage building.
(b) A garden.
(c) A pool.
(d) A ship.

3. For how many years did Garrison publish his newspaper?
(a) 10 years.
(b) 25 years.
(c) 15 years.
(d) 35 years.

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

5. Where did Douglass sleep while working on the plantation as a child?
(a) In a corn sack on the dirt floor.
(b) In one of the animal's stalls.
(c) On an old cot.
(d) In a hay stack.

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately how many issues of his newspaper did William Lloyd Garrison publish?

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

3. To whom does the author compare Douglass in the second Preface?

4. What is the focus of Douglass's descriptions in the beginning of Chapter 5?

5. What was the name of the slave who was killed in the water when he refused to get out after being beaten?

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