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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the main farm house that Colonel Edward Lloyd owned?
(a) Lloyd Farm House.
(b) Lloyd Family Farm.
(c) Great House Farm.
(d) Farm House of Lloyd.

2. What brings tears to Douglass's eyes, according to his narrative in Chapter 2?
(a) The images of the slaves being beaten.
(b) The emotional impact of babies being taken from their mothers.
(c) The images of slaves being hung.
(d) The memory of slaves singing.

3. What is the final line of Garrison's Preface (x)?
(a) "FREE ALL THE SLAVES NOW!"
(b) "DEATH TO THE SLAVEHOLDERS!"
(c) "NO COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY! NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS!"
(d) "WE CAN FREE THE SLAVES NOW!"

4. Garrison refers to Douglas as a man with what, in his Preface (x)?
(a) "Little hope."
(b) "A body ravaged by time."
(c) "High regard."
(d) "Commanding stature."

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

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

7. Who did Phillips watch being dragged off to be lynched, according to his narrative in the second Preface?
(a) William Lloyd Garrison.
(b) Daniel O'Connell.
(c) James McAlister.
(d) Frederick Douglass.

8. What is the name of the newspaper Garrison published?
(a) The Slave Master.
(b) The Slave Trader.
(c) The Liberator.
(d) New Englander.

9. Who was Frederick Douglass's first master?
(a) James O'Conner.
(b) William Lloyd Garrison.
(c) Captain Anthony.
(d) William Davenport.

10. What does Phillips say he did while reading what Douglass had written?
(a) Trembled.
(b) Cried.
(c) Shook.
(d) Laughed.

11. 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. Anthony.
(c) Mr. Hopkins.
(d) Mr. Severe.

12. What does Frederick Douglass say disgusts him in Chapter 1?
(a) Slaves being removed from their families.
(b) Slaveholders forcing themselves on slave women, then having children with them.
(c) The murder of innocent people.
(d) Slaves being sold in cities.

13. What is Douglass's concern in Chapter 1 symbolic for?
(a) Loss of his identity.
(b) Feeling helpless.
(c) Not being loved.
(d) Lack of control.

14. Wendell Phillips was the son of a mayor of what city in Massachusetts?
(a) Nantucket.
(b) Springfield.
(c) Boston.
(d) Plymouth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the main competition among the slaves, according to the author in Chapter 3?

2. What is the possible real reason that the female slave was beaten?

3. In what state was Frederick Douglass born?

4. When was the opening Preface written?

5. When was the second Preface written?

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