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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

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. How many slaves were at the main farm?
(a) 10-20.
(b) 100-200.
(c) 300-400.
(d) 30-40.

3. What is the "West Indies Experiment?"
(a) An experiment to make white people slaves.
(b) An experiment to keep slave families together.
(c) An experiment to test working conditions on plantations.
(d) An experiment to see if slaves that were freed would be just as productive as the slaves who were not.

4. What did Wendell Phillips do for a living?
(a) He was a lawyer.
(b) He was a soldier.
(c) He was a writer.
(d) He was a publisher.

5. What was Colonel Lloyd obsessed with, according to the narrative in Chapter 3?
(a) The running of his farms.
(b) His crops.
(c) His hunting dogs.
(d) The care of his horses and carriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does the author compare Douglass in the second Preface?

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

3. How many farms did Colonel Edward Lloyd own?

4. Where is the opening Preface said to be written?

5. How many years was Daniel O'Connell a slave in Africa?

(see the answer key)

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