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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Douglass happy about receiving for his trip to help one of his master's relatives?
(a) A pair of shoes.
(b) His first pair of pants.
(c) A hair cut.
(d) A new shirt.

2. What did Master Thomas believe had marred Douglass as a slave?
(a) His love for his family.
(b) His abiilty to read and write.
(c) His time in the city.
(d) His time on the plantation.

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

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

5. Who did Douglass turn to in order to learn some written words?
(a) Mrs. Lloyd.
(b) White overseers who liked him.
(c) Mrs. Auld.
(d) White boys in the street.

6. How was Douglass's new master in Chapter 9 different than Douglass' previous owners?
(a) He beat Douglass.
(b) He was a coward.
(c) He talked to Douglass like he would a white man.
(d) He was nice.

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

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

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

10. What happened to Douglass's grandmother when she got older?
(a) She had to move to a mud hut in the woods.
(b) She continued to care for her master.
(c) She was allowed to go and take Douglass with her.
(d) She was sold to another slaveholder.

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

12. What did the slaveholder use as a way to justify slavery in Chapter 9?
(a) Laws.
(b) The need for workers.
(c) Slaves needed guidance to survive.
(d) Religion.

13. What is the focus of Douglass's descriptions in the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) Relationships of slaves.
(b) How slaves are punished.
(c) How slaves are traded.
(d) How he was treated as a slave.

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

15. 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 more time to read.
(c) To be beaten less.
(d) To have the chance to run away.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Douglass's master go in Chapter 9 that changed his behavior?

2. What is the year that Douglass remembers moving in the beginning of Chapter 9?

3. Where did Douglass sleep while working on the plantation as a child?

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

5. What did Mr. Covey do to keep the slaves working all the time?

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