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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which relatives' names does Douglass know?
(a) His father and his parents.
(b) His mother and his aunt.
(c) His father and his uncle.
(d) His mother and her parents.

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

3. What is William Lloyd Garrison well-known for being?
(a) A Civil War soldier.
(b) A slave.
(c) A slave master.
(d) An abolitionist.

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

5. In what state was Frederick Douglass born?
(a) Maryland.
(b) Maine.
(c) Massachusetts.
(d) Michigan.

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

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

8. To whom does the author compare Douglass in the second Preface?
(a) Slave Masters.
(b) Preachers.
(c) Civil War Soldiers.
(d) The writers of the Constitution.

9. Who was Colonel Edward Lloyd?
(a) A Civil War soldier.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A slaveholder.
(d) A lawyer.

10. In what city in Massachusetts did Garrison hear the speech about slavery that is described in the Preface?
(a) Plymouth.
(b) Nantucket.
(c) Boston.
(d) Springfield.

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

12. How does Douglass describe the slave master who replaced Mr. Hopkins?
(a) As kind and gentle.
(b) As thin and wiry.
(c) As articulate.
(d) As ruthless and violent.

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

14. What has stayed in Douglass's memory for the rest of his life, according to his narrative in Chapter 2?
(a) The emotional impact of the songs the slaves sing.
(b) The emotional impact of babies being taken from their mothers.
(c) The images of the slaves being beaten.
(d) The images of slaves being hung.

15. What event did the author of the second Preface predict?
(a) The Civil War.
(b) His own death.
(c) The end of slavery the following year.
(d) The death of Douglass.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Douglass's first master oversee?

2. Wendell Phillips was the son of a mayor of what city in Massachusetts?

3. Why did the Colonel put tar on the fence?

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

5. In what time period of his life does Douglass's detailed descriptions in Chapter 2 take place?

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