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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Wendell Phillips do for a living?
(a) He was a lawyer.
(b) He was a publisher.
(c) He was a soldier.
(d) He was a writer.

2. Where is the opening Preface said to be written?
(a) Baltimore.
(b) St. Charles.
(c) New York.
(d) Boston.

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

4. How many house servants did Colonel Lloyd have?
(a) 20-25.
(b) 5-10.
(c) 10-15.
(d) 8-10.

5. What type of writing is the second Preface?
(a) An essay.
(b) A letter.
(c) A poem.
(d) A short story.

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

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

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

9. Wendell Phillips was the son of a mayor of what city in Massachusetts?
(a) Springfield.
(b) Plymouth.
(c) Boston.
(d) Nantucket.

10. What extreme example does Douglass give in Chapter 4 of what slaveholders are able to get away with?
(a) Murdering slaves.
(b) Beating slaves.
(c) Starving slaves.
(d) Overworking slaves.

11. How many shirts did each working slave get for a year?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 1.

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

13. Why did the Colonel put tar on the fence?
(a) To identify any slave that attempted to steal.
(b) To keep the animals away.
(c) To ruin the slaves' only clothes if they try to climb it.
(d) To know if the slaves tried to escape.

14. What is the name of the main farm house that Colonel Edward Lloyd owned?
(a) Farm House of Lloyd.
(b) Lloyd Family Farm.
(c) Great House Farm.
(d) Lloyd Farm House.

15. What is Douglass's concern in Chapter 1 symbolic for?
(a) Feeling helpless.
(b) Lack of control.
(c) Not being loved.
(d) Loss of his identity.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who gave the anti-slavery speech in Massachusetts that is described in the Preface?

3. What is the female slave's name that Douglass describes being beaten by the supervisor in Chapter 1?

4. When was Garrison's newspaper published?

5. How many overseers were there for the farms that Colonel Edward Lloyd owns?

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