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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What later happened to the person whose offices and printing presses were destroyed?
(a) The person got help and rebuildt what was destroyed.
(b) The person moved away.
(c) The person went to jail.
(d) The person was murdered.

2. What was the name of the overseer who Douglass describes as cursing all day and whose death was seen as a blessing in Chapter 2?
(a) Mr. Lloyd.
(b) Mr. Hopkins.
(c) Mr. Anthony.
(d) Mr. Severe.

3. What is William Lloyd Garrison well-known for being?
(a) An abolitionist.
(b) A slave.
(c) A Civil War soldier.
(d) A slave master.

4. How long was the food that is given to the adult slaves supposed to last?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) 2 months.
(c) 1 week.
(d) 1 month.

5. In Chapter 4 Douglass says, "I speak advisedly when I say this,--that killing a slave, or any colored person, in" what county of "Maryland, is not treated as a crime, either by the courts or the community" (20)?
(a) Talbot County.
(b) Wilson County.
(c) Jackson County.
(d) Clark County.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did the Colonel put tar on the fence?

3. What did the slaves produce on the main farm besides tobacco and corn?

4. What does Phillips say he did while reading what Douglass had written?

5. When did William Lloyd Garrison see the abolitionist speech described in the Preface?

(see the answer key)

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