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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many overseers were there for the farms that Colonel Edward Lloyd owns?
(a) There was only one overseer .
(b) There was one overseer for every three farms and one main overseer for all.
(c) There were two overseers for the farms.
(d) There was one overseer for each farm and one main overseer for all.

3. 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 pool.
(b) The carriages, horses, and stables.
(c) The cows and other farm animals.
(d) The garden.

4. What is the possible real reason that the female slave was beaten?
(a) She was disobedent.
(b) She stole some food.
(c) She ran away, but was later caught.
(d) She is found with a male slave and her master was jealous.

5. At what age was Frederick Douglass when he was taken from his mother's care?
(a) Before turning three.
(b) Before turning one.
(c) At two years of age.
(d) Before turning five.

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

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

8. When Mr. Lanman bragged about the two killings what happened?
(a) Nothing.
(b) He went to jail for one night.
(c) He had to pay a fine.
(d) He had to set two slaves free.

9. Garrison builds up Douglass as an icon of what movement in the Preface?
(a) Democratic.
(b) Fundamentalist.
(c) Abolitionist.
(d) Religious.

10. What were the ships Phillips describes in the second Preface carrying?
(a) Alcohol.
(b) Slaves.
(c) Supplies.
(d) Food.

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

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

13. For how many years did Garrison publish his newspaper?
(a) 35 years.
(b) 15 years.
(c) 25 years.
(d) 10 years.

14. 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.

15. What best defines what "mulatto" means?
(a) An adulterous relationship between a master and a slave.
(b) A slave child.
(c) A person who has one white parent and one blank parent.
(d) A person who is violent to slaves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Wendell Phillips do for a living?

2. 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)?

3. What is Douglass irritated with his mother for in Chapter 1?

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

5. What later happened to the person whose offices and printing presses were destroyed?

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