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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who did Douglass's first master oversee?
(a) Most of the overseers.
(b) All of the overseers.
(c) Three of the overseers.
(d) Two of the overseers.

3. What body of water does Phillips say Douglass has seen the ships sailing on in the second Preface?
(a) The Boston Harbor.
(b) Cape Cod.
(c) The Atlantic Ocean.
(d) The Chesapeake Bay.

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

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

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

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

8. When did William Lloyd Garrison see the abolitionist speech described in the Preface?
(a) 1859.
(b) 1841.
(c) 1835.
(d) 1862.

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

10. About what age was Douglass when his mother died?
(a) 10.
(b) 6.
(c) 7.
(d) 17.

11. What is the name of the newspaper Garrison published?
(a) New Englander.
(b) The Slave Trader.
(c) The Liberator.
(d) The Slave Master.

12. What happened when Phillips went to the police about issues related to slavery?
(a) The police found the wrongdoers and punished them.
(b) The police did nothing.
(c) The police put Phillips in jail.
(d) The police investigated .

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

14. While Douglass talks about slavery, what does he have flashbacks about in Chapter 1?
(a) A friend who was a slave as a child.
(b) His first master.
(c) His family.
(d) His first love.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many slaves did Colonel Lloyd have in total?

3. What is William Lloyd Garrison well-known for being?

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

5. What did the slaves produce on the main farm besides tobacco and corn?

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