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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the overseer who Douglass describes as cursing all day and whose death was seen as a blessing in Chapter 2?
(a) Mr. Anthony.
(b) Mr. Lloyd.
(c) Mr. Severe.
(d) Mr. Hopkins.

2. How many shirts did each working slave get for a year?
(a) 1.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

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

4. What is the possible real reason that the female slave was beaten?
(a) She ran away, but was later caught.
(b) She is found with a male slave and her master was jealous.
(c) She was disobedent.
(d) She stole some food.

5. Who did Douglass's first master have as a supervisor?
(a) Mr. Grady.
(b) Mr. Garrison.
(c) Mr. Phillips.
(d) Mr. Plummer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Colonel often do when the slaves disrespected him?

2. Whose offices and printing presses were destroyed in the narrative of the second Preface?

3. For how many years did Garrison publish his newspaper?

4. What did Colonel Lloyd own that took five men to maintain?

5. What is Douglass's concern in Chapter 1 symbolic for?

(see the answer key)

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