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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many house servants did Colonel Lloyd have?
(a) 5-10.
(b) 10-15.
(c) 8-10.
(d) 20-25.

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

3. What did the slaves produce on the main farm besides tobacco and corn?
(a) Potatoes.
(b) Squash.
(c) Wheat.
(d) Cotton.

4. What does Frederick Douglass say disgusts him in Chapter 1?
(a) Slaves being sold in cities.
(b) Slaveholders forcing themselves on slave women, then having children with them.
(c) Slaves being removed from their families.
(d) The murder of innocent people.

5. Phillips compares the Mississippi Valley to a story in what publication?
(a) A letter.
(b) A journal.
(c) The Bible.
(d) A newspaper.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the father and son slave team take care of on the Colonel's farm, according to Douglass's narrative in Chapter 3?

2. According to Douglass, what did the slaves strive for at Lloyd's plantations?

3. What does Phillips say he did while reading what Douglass had written?

4. What did Colonel Lloyd do about one of his slaves getting killed by the overseer in the narrative of Chapter 4?

5. Who did Phillips watch being dragged off to be lynched, according to his narrative in the second Preface?

(see the answer key)

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