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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Garrison builds up Douglass as an icon of what movement in the Preface?
(a) Religious.
(b) Abolitionist.
(c) Fundamentalist.
(d) Democratic.

2. Where was Douglass sent to live in order to help a relative of his master?
(a) To a nearby farm.
(b) Boston.
(c) Baltimore.
(d) Nantucket.

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

4. What was the name of the slave who was killed in the water when he refused to get out after being beaten?
(a) Toby.
(b) Jo.
(c) Darby.
(d) Demby.

5. What did the father and son slave team take care of on the Colonel's farm, according to Douglass's narrative in Chapter 3?
(a) The pool.
(b) The carriages, horses, and stables.
(c) The cows and other farm animals.
(d) The garden.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was ranked the same in value as the slaves on the plantation, according to Douglass's narrative in Chapter 8?

2. Who lived across the street and treated his slaves cruelly, according to Douglass's narrative in Chapter 6?

3. Who said, "It would forever unfit him to be a slave" (29)?

4. What was a teenage girl in Douglass's own family killed for?

5. What did Douglass trade to learn new written words?

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