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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Douglass begin Chapter 1 talking about?
(a) His mother and her parents.
(b) His slave friend.
(c) His brother and sister.
(d) His first master.

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

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

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

5. In what time period of his life does Douglass's detailed descriptions in Chapter 2 take place?
(a) When he met his first love.
(b) His teenage years.
(c) His twenties.
(d) Two years of his childhood.

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

7. How many slaves did Colonel Lloyd have in total?
(a) About 1,300.
(b) About 2,000.
(c) About 800.
(d) About 1,000.

8. What is the final line of Garrison's Preface (x)?
(a) "NO COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY! NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS!"
(b) "DEATH TO THE SLAVEHOLDERS!"
(c) "FREE ALL THE SLAVES NOW!"
(d) "WE CAN FREE THE SLAVES NOW!"

9. What is the female slave's name that Douglass describes being beaten by the supervisor in Chapter 1?
(a) Ann Jester.
(b) Aunt Hester.
(c) Jan Harris.
(d) Arlene Henry.

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

11. What rumor does Douglass relate about himself in Chapter 1?
(a) His father was a white man.
(b) His father was a lawyer.
(c) His father was a doctor.
(d) His father was a Civil War soldier.

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

13. What later happened to the person whose offices and printing presses were destroyed?
(a) The person got help and rebuildt what was destroyed.
(b) The person was murdered.
(c) The person moved away.
(d) The person went to jail.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Douglass, what did the slaves strive for at Lloyd's plantations?

2. What is a main theme that Douglass uses in Chapter 3?

3. Who did Phillips watch being dragged off to be lynched, according to his narrative in the second Preface?

4. Who was Colonel Edward Lloyd?

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

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