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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Douglass vow to do during Chapter 6?
(a) Learn to count money.
(b) Learn to read.
(c) Earn his freedom.
(d) Go to school.

2. Where did Douglass's master go in Chapter 9 that changed his behavior?
(a) A Baptist camp meeting.
(b) A community meeting.
(c) A slaveholders meeting.
(d) A Methodist camp meeting.

3. Who did Douglass have to fight with to get his daily food?
(a) Other slave children.
(b) Dogs.
(c) All the slaves.
(d) Pigs.

4. What plan did Douglass decide not to give up on by the end of Chapter 8?
(a) To learn to read.
(b) To learn to write.
(c) To help his grandmother.
(d) To be free.

5. What did Douglass get to eat as a child on the plantation?
(a) Bread.
(b) Mush.
(c) Beans.
(d) Table scraps.

6. What did a slave need from his or her master to travel?
(a) A letter.
(b) Some money.
(c) A ticket.
(d) A pass.

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

8. 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 he was treated as a slave.
(d) How slaves are traded.

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

10. What did Douglass not have enough time to do while working for Mr. Covey?
(a) Read .
(b) Finish his allotted work.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Eat.

11. 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 trade her for a male slave to work in the fields.
(c) To help care for the younger slaves.
(d) To breed with.

12. Who ran after Douglass to take the newspaper or a book away when he was caught with one, according to his narrative in Chapter 7?
(a) Mr. Daniel.
(b) Thomas.
(c) Mrs. Lloyd.
(d) Mrs. Auld.

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

14. What did Douglass mainly do with his time off while working for Mr. Covey?
(a) Write.
(b) Visit with street children.
(c) Read.
(d) Sleep.

15. What did Douglass's master inadvertently teach him in Chapter 6?
(a) Education would help him earn money.
(b) Education would lead to his freedom.
(c) Learning is hard.
(d) Slaves are smart.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Douglass like the job he did for Daniel?

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

3. Who does Douglass describe as being tenderhearted when he first met her?

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

5. Why was Douglass's new master in Chapter 9 different than his previous owners?

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