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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What best defines what "mulatto" means?
(a) An adulterous relationship between a master and a slave.
(b) A slave child.
(c) A person who is violent to slaves.
(d) A person who has one white parent and one blank parent.

2. Who lived across the street and treated his slaves cruelly, according to Douglass's narrative in Chapter 6?
(a) Mr. Lundy.
(b) Mr. Dingall.
(c) Mr. Hamilton.
(d) Mr. Casson.

3. When Mr. Lanman bragged about the two killings what happened?
(a) He had to set two slaves free.
(b) He went to jail for one night.
(c) Nothing.
(d) He had to pay a fine.

4. Phillips compares the Mississippi Valley to a story in what publication?
(a) A journal.
(b) A letter.
(c) The Bible.
(d) A newspaper.

5. What did Mrs. Auld do for a living?
(a) She was a baker.
(b) She was a teacher.
(c) She was a weaver.
(d) She was a secretary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the writer of the second Preface famous for?

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

3. What was a teenage girl in Douglass's own family killed for?

4. What body of water does Phillips say Douglass has seen the ships sailing on in the second Preface?

5. What did Wendell Phillips do for a living?

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