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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what age was Douglass when his mother died?
(a) 6.
(b) 7.
(c) 10.
(d) 17.

2. How many years was Daniel O'Connell a slave in Africa?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 10.

3. What does Douglass describe in detail in Chapter 2?
(a) His mother and her parents.
(b) His brother and sisters.
(c) His aunts and uncles.
(d) His first masters and the farms he lived on.

4. What extreme example does Douglass give in Chapter 4 of what slaveholders are able to get away with?
(a) Starving slaves.
(b) Beating slaves.
(c) Overworking slaves.
(d) Murdering slaves.

5. What was a teenage girl in Douglass's own family killed for?
(a) Not properly cleaning the kitchen.
(b) Feeding the house animals too much.
(c) Talking to the masters children.
(d) Falling asleep while babysitting.

6. Where is the opening Preface said to be written?
(a) Boston.
(b) Baltimore.
(c) St. Charles.
(d) New York.

7. What do the white sails of the ships mentioned in the second Preface symbolize?
(a) Godliness.
(b) Calm.
(c) Peace.
(d) Goodness.

8. What is Douglass irritated with his mother for in Chapter 1?
(a) For coming to visit him, knowing she could get beaten for it.
(b) Not telling him who his father is.
(c) For dying.
(d) For leaving him even though he knows she could not help it.

9. What later happened to the person whose offices and printing presses were destroyed?
(a) The person went to jail.
(b) The person was murdered.
(c) The person moved away.
(d) The person got help and rebuildt what was destroyed.

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

11. How long was the food that is given to the adult slaves supposed to last?
(a) 2 months.
(b) 2 weeks.
(c) 1 week.
(d) 1 month.

12. How old does Douglass write that he thinks he is in the first Chapter?
(a) 20 or 21 years old.
(b) 25 or 26 years old.
(c) 27 or 28 years old.
(d) 29 or 30 years old.

13. When did William Lloyd Garrison see the abolitionist speech described in the Preface?
(a) 1835.
(b) 1859.
(c) 1862.
(d) 1841.

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

15. Who did Phillips watch being dragged off to be lynched, according to his narrative in the second Preface?
(a) Daniel O'Connell.
(b) James McAlister.
(c) William Lloyd Garrison.
(d) Frederick Douglass.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Douglass describe the slave master who replaced Mr. Hopkins?

2. What has stayed in Douglass's memory for the rest of his life, according to his narrative in Chapter 2?

3. Who gave the anti-slavery speech in Massachusetts that is described in the Preface?

4. Who does Douglass begin Chapter 1 talking about?

5. Garrison builds up Douglass as an icon of what movement in the Preface?

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