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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Douglass use to practice his writing?
(a) Pencil.
(b) Chalk.
(c) Pen.
(d) Quill and ink.

2. Why was Douglass shocked at seeing the female slave being beaten in Chapter 1?
(a) He thought the supervisor was a good man.
(b) He thought she was nice.
(c) She was young and pregnant.
(d) He lived at the far end of the farm and was sheltered from these occurrences.

3. What is the focus of Douglass's descriptions in the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) How slaves are punished.
(b) How slaves are traded.
(c) How he was treated as a slave.
(d) Relationships of slaves.

4. Garrison asks the reader for sympathy for whom in the Preface?
(a) The down-trodden victims.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) The slaveholders.
(d) Himself.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did Douglass vow to do during Chapter 6?

4. When did William Lloyd Garrison see the abolitionist speech described in the Preface?

5. What made Douglass unhappy during Chapter 7?

(see the answer key)

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