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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did Mr. Covey do to keep the slaves working all the time?
(a) Let them sleep longer if they worked more.
(b) Yelled from a loudspeaker.
(c) Gave them bonuses.
(d) Snuck up on them.

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

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

6. What was Douglass most upset about by the end of Chapter 8?
(a) He still had not tried to escape.
(b) He had to go work in the fields.
(c) That his grandmother was mistreated.
(d) That his first slaveholder did not put him in his will.

7. What happened to Douglass after he was given to Mrs. Lucretia?
(a) He moved with her to South Carolina.
(b) She gave him to Master Andrew.
(c) He was sent back to Baltimore.
(d) He moved with her to North Carolina.

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

9. What was ranked the same in value as the slaves on the plantation, according to Douglass's narrative in Chapter 8?
(a) Cotton.
(b) Furniture.
(c) Farm animals.
(d) Farms.

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

11. What was the job that Douglass performed for Daniel when he went hunting?
(a) He flushed out the birds.
(b) He retrieved the birds.
(c) He did bird calls.
(d) He chased squirrels up trees.

12. What did Douglass use to practice his writing?
(a) Quill and ink.
(b) Pen.
(c) Pencil.
(d) Chalk.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Douglass vow to do during Chapter 6?

2. What did Master Thomas believe had marred Douglass as a slave?

3. How was Douglass's new master in Chapter 9 different than Douglass' previous owners?

4. Which slaveholders exhibit more morality, according to Douglass in Chapter 6?

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

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