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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Douglass irritated with his mother for in Chapter 1?
(a) For leaving him even though he knows she could not help it.
(b) For coming to visit him, knowing she could get beaten for it.
(c) Not telling him who his father is.
(d) For dying.

2. Approximately how many issues of his newspaper did William Lloyd Garrison publish?
(a) 1,800 issues.
(b) 500 issues.
(c) 100 issues.
(d) 15,000 issues.

3. How many years was Daniel O'Connell a slave in Africa?
(a) 2.
(b) 10.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

4. What does Douglass describe in detail in Chapter 2?
(a) His mother and her parents.
(b) His aunts and uncles.
(c) His brother and sisters.
(d) His first masters and the farms he lived on.

5. In what time period of his life does Douglass's detailed descriptions in Chapter 2 take place?
(a) Two years of his childhood.
(b) When he met his first love.
(c) His teenage years.
(d) His twenties.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the overseer for the main farm house of Colonel Lloyd?

2. What is one of the contrasting effects of slavery that Douglass suffers, according to Garrison in the Preface (x)?

3. What were the ships Phillips describes in the second Preface carrying?

4. What rumor does Douglass relate about himself in Chapter 1?

5. How many shirts did each working slave get for a year?

(see the answer key)

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