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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Douglass compare the way slaves are treated to?
(a) Uneducated people.
(b) Children.
(c) Mules.
(d) Animals.

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

3. What was the name of the slave who was killed in the water when he refused to get out after being beaten?
(a) Demby.
(b) Jo.
(c) Toby.
(d) Darby.

4. When was Garrison's newspaper published?
(a) Before, during, and after the Civil War.
(b) After the Civil War.
(c) During the Civil War.
(d) Before the Civil War.

5. Who helped Frederick Douglass with his writing of this narrative?
(a) James McAlister.
(b) No one.
(c) William L. Garrison.
(d) Daniel O'Connell.

6. Who was Frederick Douglass's first master?
(a) Captain Anthony.
(b) James O'Conner.
(c) William Davenport.
(d) William Lloyd Garrison.

7. What is the female slave's name that Douglass describes being beaten by the supervisor in Chapter 1?
(a) Jan Harris.
(b) Aunt Hester.
(c) Arlene Henry.
(d) Ann Jester.

8. What is one of the contrasting effects of slavery that Douglass suffers, according to Garrison in the Preface (x)?
(a) "No formal education."
(b) "A life not worth living."
(c) "Trembling in fear for his safety."
(d) "Loses his soul."

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

10. Whose offices and printing presses were destroyed in the narrative of the second Preface?
(a) A lawyer's.
(b) A teacher's.
(c) A pastor's.
(d) A doctor's.

11. In what time period of his life does Douglass's detailed descriptions in Chapter 2 take place?
(a) His teenage years.
(b) When he met his first love.
(c) His twenties.
(d) Two years of his childhood.

12. What is a main theme that Douglass uses in Chapter 3?
(a) Love can come from unexpected sources.
(b) Competition brings out the best in people.
(c) Hunger will cause people to do almost anything.
(d) Slavery makes people feel less than human.

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

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

15. Who did Douglass's first master oversee?
(a) Two of the overseers.
(b) All of the overseers.
(c) Most of the overseers.
(d) Three of the overseers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Garrison describe Douglass's nature in the Preface?

2. What did the slaves produce on the main farm besides tobacco and corn?

3. What is the name of the main farm house that Colonel Edward Lloyd owned?

4. What were the ships Phillips describes in the second Preface carrying?

5. To whom does the author compare Douglass in the second Preface?

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