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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 is the name of the slave who is killed by the new overseer at Lloyd's plantation?
(a) Demby.
(b) Barney.
(c) Giles.
(d) Harry.

2. In Chapter 9, all BUT WHICH of the following are fellow kitchen slaves?
(a) Henny.
(b) Priscilla.
(c) Eliza.
(d) Mary.

3. What is the name of the Auld's neighbors?
(a) Purcell.
(b) Dumont.
(c) Cantor.
(d) Hamilton.

4. During which of the following years is Garrison's Preface dated?
(a) 1749.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1698.
(d) 1845.

5. In his discussion of the Auld household, Douglass says that Mrs. Auld practices which trade?
(a) Weaver.
(b) Potter.
(c) Seamstress.
(d) Baker.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the doctor Brent wishes Ellen to see in Chapter 33?

2. How far is the distance between Brent's grandmother's house and the plantation house where Brent is sent to work?

3. To which state does Dr. Flint send his son on a visit in Chapter 7?

4. In his discussion of his childhood, what does Douglass say is the name of the man who owns his mother?

5. Garrison states in his Preface that Douglass proves slaves in Maryland were treated slightly better than slaves in all BUT WHICH of the following states?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Douglass' life like under Mr. Covey?

2. When Mrs. Auld begins to teach Douglass the alphabet, why is her husband upset?

3. When discussing his childhood, why does Douglass say life is generally harder for slaves with white fathers than for other slaves with two black parents?

4. Why does Brent refuse Emily Dodge's request that she return home?

5. Why does Brent start to fear her master when she is 15 years old?

6. What is the result of Brent's repeated correspondence with Dr. Flint in Chapter 34?

7. Describe the process by which Douglass teaches himself to write after Mrs. Auld stops teaching him.

8. What bit of good news does Brent receive in Chapter 40, and what bad news overshadows it?

9. What is the result when Brent falls in love with a free black man?

10. Describe the Bruce household Brent finds after escaping North.

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