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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Douglass realize about education in Chapter 6?
(a) He was smart.
(b) Uneducated slaves can be controlled.
(c) Slavery education was legal in the North.
(d) Learning to read would help him earn money.

2. What was Colonel Lloyd obsessed with, according to the narrative in Chapter 3?
(a) His crops.
(b) The care of his horses and carriage.
(c) His hunting dogs.
(d) The running of his farms.

3. When was the second Preface written?
(a) 1818.
(b) 1835.
(c) 1894.
(d) 1845.

4. What does "abolitionist" mean?
(a) Someone who works to make laws for slaveholders stronger.
(b) A person from the south who is fighting to keep slavery laws intact.
(c) Someone who wants all slaves in the North free.
(d) Someone who wants to get rid of slavery.

5. Garrison refers to Douglas as a man with what, in his Preface (x)?
(a) "Commanding stature."
(b) "Little hope."
(c) "A body ravaged by time."
(d) "High regard."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. While Douglass talks about slavery, what does he have flashbacks about in Chapter 1?

3. Who does Douglass describe as being tenderhearted when he first met her?

4. Who was Colonel Edward Lloyd?

5. What did the slaveholder use as a way to justify slavery in Chapter 9?

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