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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

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 body of water does Phillips say Douglass has seen the ships sailing on in the second Preface?
(a) The Chesapeake Bay.
(b) The Atlantic Ocean.
(c) The Boston Harbor.
(d) Cape Cod.

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

4. How many slaves did Colonel Lloyd have in total?
(a) About 1,000.
(b) About 1,300.
(c) About 800.
(d) About 2,000.

5. What does Douglass focus on describing in Chapter 3?
(a) Slave families attempt at staying together.
(b) The punishments slaves endure.
(c) His teenage years.
(d) The luxuries of slaveholders .

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the white sails of the ships mentioned in the second Preface symbolize?

3. What extreme example does Douglass give in Chapter 4 of what slaveholders are able to get away with?

4. Who did Douglass's first master oversee?

5. Where is the opening Preface said to be written?

(see the answer key)

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