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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Douglass compare the way slaves are treated to?
(a) Children.
(b) Uneducated people.
(c) Animals.
(d) Mules.

2. What event did the author of the second Preface predict?
(a) His own death.
(b) The Civil War.
(c) The end of slavery the following year.
(d) The death of Douglass.

3. What was a teenage girl in Douglass's own family killed for?
(a) Falling asleep while babysitting.
(b) Talking to the masters children.
(c) Feeding the house animals too much.
(d) Not properly cleaning the kitchen.

4. What body of water does Phillips say Douglass has seen the ships sailing on in the second Preface?
(a) The Atlantic Ocean.
(b) Cape Cod.
(c) The Chesapeake Bay.
(d) The Boston Harbor.

5. What does Douglass remark about city slaves versus country slaves in Chapter 6?
(a) City slaves are treated worse.
(b) City slaves are treated better.
(c) City slaves are treated equally as country slaves.
(d) City slaves are given opportunities to be free.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tried to help Douglass learn the alphabet?

2. When was the second Preface written?

3. What did the slave master who replaced Mr. Hopkins want to do?

4. Who did Phillips watch being dragged off to be lynched, according to his narrative in the second Preface?

5. What is Douglass's concern in Chapter 1 symbolic for?

(see the answer key)

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