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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did a slave need from his or her master to travel?
(a) A letter.
(b) Some money.
(c) A ticket.
(d) A pass.

3. Who became an abusive alcoholic, according to the narrative in Chapter 8?
(a) Master Hugh.
(b) Master Andrew.
(c) Master Thomas.
(d) Master Lloyd.

4. What was the main competition among the slaves, according to the author in Chapter 3?
(a) The one who was yelled at the least.
(b) Each insisted that their master was better than the other's master.
(c) Who could go without a beating for the longest.
(d) Who had the most food left after a week.

5. Where did Douglass sleep while working on the plantation as a child?
(a) In a corn sack on the dirt floor.
(b) On an old cot.
(c) In a hay stack.
(d) In one of the animal's stalls.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was Garrison's newspaper published?

3. How long did Douglass have to work on occasion on Mr. Covey's farm?

4. When Mr. Lanman bragged about the two killings what happened?

5. Approximately how many issues of his newspaper did William Lloyd Garrison publish?

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