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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Garrison builds up Douglass as an icon of what movement in the Preface?

2. In what city in Massachusetts did Garrison hear the speech about slavery that is described in the Preface?

3. Who did Douglass's first master oversee?

4. What does Douglass focus on describing in Chapter 3?

5. Wendell Phillips was the son of a mayor of what city in Massachusetts?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Phillips risk his life to be a part of the anti-slavery movement?

2. Describe the Great House Farm. Who owned it?

3. What common practice upsets Douglass, according to his narrative in Chapter 1?

4. What was the West Indies Experiment?

5. Why does Garrison make Douglass seem to be so important to the abolitionist movement?

6. Who was William Lloyd Garrison?

7. What upsets Douglass about his mother's death?

8. How does Douglass describe the treatment of mulatto slaves in Chapter 1?

9. How does Douglass compare slaves to animals in Chapter 3?

10. What is the irony regarding the slaves wanting to work at the main farm?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define what an abolitionist was to Douglass. Discuss the risks abolitionists faced and their possible reasons for doing so. Why did Douglass want to risk his new-found freedom to help with the anti-slavery movement? Why did others who contributed to the book? What is notable about their sacrifices?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the narrative style of Douglass's memoir. From what perspective is the memoir written? In what tense is it related? Why are these decisions by the writer important?

Essay Topic 3

How did slave masters go about the process of dominating slaves and maintaining that domination? What are examples specifically of how this process took place? What are the dangers of enslavement today, given our knowledge of slavery's history?

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