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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Mr. Covey do in the morning and at night?
(a) Beat the slaves.
(b) Prayed.
(c) Left the farm to sell his goods.
(d) Read the newspaper.

2. Who was Whittier?
(a) A poet.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) A slaveholder.
(d) A doctor.

3. Where did Douglass sleep while working on the plantation as a child?
(a) In one of the animal's stalls.
(b) On an old cot.
(c) In a corn sack on the dirt floor.
(d) In a hay stack.

4. Who tried to help Douglass learn the alphabet?
(a) Mr. Anthony.
(b) Mrs. Lloyd .
(c) Mrs. Auld.
(d) Mr. Auld.

5. What is the subject matter of two books that Douglass read and found interesting?
(a) Slavery covering both positions.
(b) How slavery will change in the future.
(c) Life of an educated slave.
(d) Life of an educated white man.

6. Who said, "It would forever unfit him to be a slave" (29)?
(a) Mrs. Auld.
(b) Mr. Lloyd.
(c) Mr. Anthony.
(d) Mr. Auld.

7. What did Douglass hope for by going to the new farm where he was sent in Chapter 9?
(a) To have more food.
(b) To have the chance to run away.
(c) To have more time to read.
(d) To be beaten less.

8. Who did Douglass say he would miss from his former plantation in Chapter 5?
(a) Master Garrison.
(b) Toby.
(c) Master Daniel.
(d) No one.

9. What did Douglass realize about education in Chapter 6?
(a) He was smart.
(b) Learning to read would help him earn money.
(c) Slavery education was legal in the North.
(d) Uneducated slaves can be controlled.

10. What did the slave master tell his wife regarding not teaching slaves to read?
(a) He said they would be unmanageable.
(b) All are correct.
(c) He said that it is not safe.
(d) He said that it was against the law.

11. Where was Douglass sent to live in order to help a relative of his master?
(a) Baltimore.
(b) Nantucket.
(c) Boston.
(d) To a nearby farm.

12. In what year does the narrative of Chapter 10 begin?
(a) 1800.
(b) 1893.
(c) 1733.
(d) 1833.

13. What caused Douglass's first beating on Mr. Covey's farm?
(a) Damaging farm tools.
(b) Breaking a cart and gate.
(c) Speaking before being told to .
(d) Being disrespectful.

14. What was Douglass's job on Mr. Covey's farm?
(a) Caring for the slaveholder's family.
(b) A field worker.
(c) Taking care of barn animals.
(d) Repairing the barn.

15. What does "abolitionist" mean?
(a) Someone who wants all slaves in the North free.
(b) Someone who works to make laws for slaveholders stronger.
(c) A person from the south who is fighting to keep slavery laws intact.
(d) Someone who wants to get rid of slavery.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Douglass have to go back to his birth place in Chapter 8?

2. Who did Douglass have to fight with to get his daily food?

3. How many slaves had Mrs. Auld owned before Douglass came to live with her?

4. What did Douglass get to eat as a child on the plantation?

5. What did Douglass trade to learn new written words?

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