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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) Prayed.
(b) Beat the slaves.
(c) Left the farm to sell his goods.
(d) Read the newspaper.

2. What caused Douglass to hate the slaveholders even more than usual in Chapter 8?
(a) Passing slaves to others without any gratitude for their years of service.
(b) They traded him for a horse.
(c) Deciding to give their slave less food than usual for working slowly.
(d) They took all his books away.

3. What is the year that Douglass remembers moving in the beginning of Chapter 9?
(a) 1832.
(b) 1812.
(c) 1891.
(d) 1860.

4. Approximately how old was Douglass when he went back to his birth place in Chapter 8?
(a) 17.
(b) 10.
(c) 5.
(d) 15.

5. Why did the slaveholder throw a female slave off the plantation in Chapter 9?
(a) She was too young to do any work.
(b) She was disabled from a fire.
(c) She was too old to work.
(d) He caught her with another slave and was jealous.

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

7. Who does Douglass describe as being tenderhearted when he first met her?
(a) Ms. Daniel.
(b) Mrs. Lloyd.
(c) Mrs. Anthony.
(d) Mrs. Auld.

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

9. Why did Douglass let his master's horse go frequently, irritating him, in Chapter 9?
(a) To show that animals are not as smart as slaves.
(b) To keep the horse from getting killed.
(c) To retrieve it from his previous plantation so he could get some food.
(d) To be mean.

10. What made Douglass unhappy during Chapter 7?
(a) Missing his mother.
(b) Being beaten.
(c) His newfound knowledge about slavery.
(d) Being starved.

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

12. What caused Douglass to change in Chapter 10?
(a) Learning to write.
(b) Learning to read.
(c) Escaping.
(d) Fighting the slave trainer and winning.

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

14. What did the slave trainer that Douglass was lent to for a year get a female slave for?
(a) To care for his family and household chores.
(b) To breed with.
(c) To trade her for a male slave to work in the fields.
(d) To help care for the younger slaves.

15. What did Douglass use of Master Thomas's to help him write?
(a) A history book.
(b) A spelling book.
(c) A children's story book.
(d) A newspaper.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was ranked the same in value as the slaves on the plantation, according to Douglass's narrative in Chapter 8?

2. For about how long does Douglass write he stayed in Master Hugh's family in Chapter 7?

3. How long did Douglass have to work on occasion on Mr. Covey's farm?

4. What caused Douglass's first beating on Mr. Covey's farm?

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

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