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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Wendell Phillips do for a living?
(a) He was a lawyer.
(b) He was a publisher.
(c) He was a soldier.
(d) He was a writer.

2. What weapon does Douglass say Mr. Lanman used to kill one of two slaves?
(a) Knife.
(b) Gun.
(c) Noose.
(d) Hatchet.

3. What did the slave trainer that Douglass was lent to for a year get a female slave for?
(a) To breed with.
(b) To care for his family and household chores.
(c) To trade her for a male slave to work in the fields.
(d) To help care for the younger slaves.

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

5. What did Colonel Lloyd own that took five men to maintain?
(a) A large food storage building.
(b) A ship.
(c) A garden.
(d) A pool.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age was Frederick Douglass when he was taken from his mother's care?

2. What did Douglass use to practice his writing?

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

4. Where did Douglass's master go in Chapter 9 that changed his behavior?

5. Garrison asks the reader for sympathy for whom in the Preface?

(see the answer key)

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