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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Which slaveholders exhibit more morality, according to Douglass in Chapter 6?
(a) The Garrisons.
(b) Southern slaveholders.
(c) City slaveholders.
(d) The Lloyds.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately how old was Douglass when he went back to his birth place in Chapter 8?

2. What was Douglass happy about receiving for his trip to help one of his master's relatives?

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

4. What did Douglass think would help him to become a free slave when he was first sent from the plantation as a child?

5. What did Douglass mainly do with his time off while working for Mr. Covey?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Douglass say he sees more clearly the results of slavery in Chapter 8?

2. What was the situation that caused Douglass to go work for Mr. Walter Price?

3. What was Douglass's grandmother's situation in Chapter 8?

4. Why did Douglass begin to see his learning to read as a curse?

5. What does Douglass washing in the river symbolize in Chapter 5?

6. Who was Mr. Covey and how is he described?

7. Give and explain an example of irony that Douglass uses in Chapter 6.

8. Explain the hopefulness of Douglass in Chapter 5.

9. What was Douglass's life like while with Mr. Freeland?

10. What does Douglass describe having experienced for the first time in Chapter 9?

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