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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the slave master who replaced Mr. Hopkins want to do?
(a) Increase his position with Colonel Lloyd.
(b) Keep his job by not being overly noticed.
(c) Earn enough money to buy his own slaves.
(d) Buy his own farm.

2. According to Douglass, what did the slaves strive for at Lloyd's plantations?
(a) To be the head slave.
(b) To get extra food.
(c) To work at the main farm.
(d) To get an additional blanket.

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

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

5. Garrison refers to Douglas as a man with what, in his Preface (x)?
(a) "Commanding stature."
(b) "Little hope."
(c) "High regard."
(d) "A body ravaged by time."

6. What does the author of the second Preface compare slaves to?
(a) Animals.
(b) Machines.
(c) Tools.
(d) Rocks.

7. Garrison asks the reader for sympathy for whom in the Preface?
(a) The down-trodden victims.
(b) Himself.
(c) The slaveholders.
(d) Frederick Douglass.

8. Near what river was the main farm Douglass grew up on?
(a) Miles River.
(b) Mississippi River.
(c) Chippewa River.
(d) Maryland River.

9. How many years was Daniel O'Connell a slave in Africa?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 10.
(d) 2.

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

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

12. How does Garrison describe Douglass's nature in the Preface?
(a) Humble.
(b) Self-centered.
(c) Condescending.
(d) Disrespectful.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What event did the author of the second Preface predict?

2. What is the "West Indies Experiment?"

3. What was the name of the overseer for the main farm house of Colonel Lloyd?

4. At what age was Frederick Douglass when he was taken from his mother's care?

5. What did Wendell Phillips do for a living?

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