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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Approximately how many issues of his newspaper did William Lloyd Garrison publish?
(a) 500 issues.
(b) 100 issues.
(c) 15,000 issues.
(d) 1,800 issues.

3. What did the Colonel often do when the slaves disrespected him?
(a) He withheld food.
(b) He killed them.
(c) He traded them away.
(d) He reduced their water supply.

4. What did the slaves produce on the main farm besides tobacco and corn?
(a) Cotton.
(b) Squash.
(c) Potatoes.
(d) Wheat.

5. Why does Douglas think Mr. Hopkins was replaced?
(a) He stole money.
(b) He was rude to Colonel Lloyd's children.
(c) He stole liquor.
(d) He was not severe enough as a master.

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

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

8. What did the father and son slave team take care of on the Colonel's farm, according to Douglass's narrative in Chapter 3?
(a) The garden.
(b) The pool.
(c) The cows and other farm animals.
(d) The carriages, horses, and stables.

9. What is the final line of Garrison's Preface (x)?
(a) "WE CAN FREE THE SLAVES NOW!"
(b) "NO COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY! NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS!"
(c) "DEATH TO THE SLAVEHOLDERS!"
(d) "FREE ALL THE SLAVES NOW!"

10. How many shirts did each working slave get for a year?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

11. What does Frederick Douglass say disgusts him in Chapter 1?
(a) Slaves being removed from their families.
(b) Slaves being sold in cities.
(c) Slaveholders forcing themselves on slave women, then having children with them.
(d) The murder of innocent people.

12. How many farms did Colonel Edward Lloyd own?
(a) More than 10.
(b) More than 30.
(c) More than 20.
(d) 5.

13. Where was the punishment of slaves and the food given out for Lloyd's slaves?
(a) At each of the farms.
(b) Lloyd Farm House.
(c) Great House Farm.
(d) Lloyd Family Farm.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of writing is the second Preface?

2. What does Phillips say he did while reading what Douglass had written?

3. What is the writer of the second Preface famous for?

4. In what city in Massachusetts did Garrison hear the speech about slavery that is described in the Preface?

5. What is the "West Indies Experiment?"

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