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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why was Douglass shocked at seeing the female slave being beaten in Chapter 1?
(a) She was young and pregnant.
(b) He lived at the far end of the farm and was sheltered from these occurrences.
(c) He thought she was nice.
(d) He thought the supervisor was a good man.

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

4. In Chapter 4 Douglass says, "I speak advisedly when I say this,--that killing a slave, or any colored person, in" what county of "Maryland, is not treated as a crime, either by the courts or the community" (20)?
(a) Talbot County.
(b) Wilson County.
(c) Jackson County.
(d) Clark County.

5. What does Phillips say he did while reading what Douglass had written?
(a) Trembled.
(b) Shook.
(c) Cried.
(d) Laughed.

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

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

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

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

10. 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) 29 or 30 years old.
(d) 27 or 28 years old.

11. What did Colonel Lloyd do about one of his slaves getting killed by the overseer in the narrative of Chapter 4?
(a) He did nothing and let the incident pass.
(b) He turned the slave master in to the authorities.
(c) He fired the slave master.
(d) He made the slave master pay the cost of the slave.

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

13. Who gave the anti-slavery speech in Massachusetts that is described in the Preface?
(a) Frederick Douglass.
(b) William Smith.
(c) Daniel O'Connell.
(d) Paul Davenport.

14. 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."

15. Who was Slave Master Mr. Hopkins replaced with?
(a) Mr. Anthony.
(b) Mr. Gore.
(c) Mr. Severe.
(d) Mr. Silas.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Douglass describe in detail in Chapter 2?

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

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

5. What was Colonel Lloyd obsessed with, according to the narrative in Chapter 3?

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