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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Douglass mainly do with his time off while working for Mr. Covey?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Read.
(c) Visit with street children.
(d) Write.

2. What did Douglass trade to learn new written words?
(a) Water.
(b) Paper.
(c) A piece of candy.
(d) Bread.

3. Who did Douglass have to fight with to get his daily food?
(a) Dogs.
(b) All the slaves.
(c) Other slave children.
(d) Pigs.

4. Who said, "It would forever unfit him to be a slave" (29)?
(a) Mrs. Auld.
(b) Mr. Auld.
(c) Mr. Anthony.
(d) Mr. Lloyd.

5. What caused Douglass to change in Chapter 10?
(a) Learning to read.
(b) Fighting the slave trainer and winning.
(c) Escaping.
(d) Learning to write.

6. Which slaveholders exhibit more morality, according to Douglass in Chapter 6?
(a) The Lloyds.
(b) The Garrisons.
(c) Southern slaveholders.
(d) City slaveholders.

7. Why did Douglass have to go back to his birth place in Chapter 8?
(a) He got in trouble.
(b) His first master was mad with his current owners.
(c) His first master wanted him to go with his son.
(d) His first master died and had no will.

8. Why did Douglass like the job he did for Daniel?
(a) He got extra water.
(b) He got food.
(c) He did not have to work as hard.
(d) He got to sleep later the next day.

9. How was Douglass's new master in Chapter 9 different than Douglass' previous owners?
(a) He was nice.
(b) He talked to Douglass like he would a white man.
(c) He was a coward.
(d) He beat Douglass.

10. How many slaves had Mrs. Auld owned before Douglass came to live with her?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 0.

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

12. What does "abolitionist" mean?
(a) A person from the south who is fighting to keep slavery laws intact.
(b) Someone who wants all slaves in the North free.
(c) Someone who works to make laws for slaveholders stronger.
(d) Someone who wants to get rid of slavery.

13. What did Douglass not have enough time to do while working for Mr. Covey?
(a) Read .
(b) Finish his allotted work.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Eat.

14. What is the subject matter of two books that Douglass read and found interesting?
(a) Life of an educated slave.
(b) Life of an educated white man.
(c) Slavery covering both positions.
(d) How slavery will change in the future.

15. What was Douglass most upset about by the end of Chapter 8?
(a) That his grandmother was mistreated.
(b) He had to go work in the fields.
(c) That his first slaveholder did not put him in his will.
(d) He still had not tried to escape.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mrs. Auld do for a living?

2. Why did Douglass let his master's horse go frequently, irritating him, in Chapter 9?

3. Where did Douglass sleep while working on the plantation as a child?

4. What was Douglass's job on Mr. Covey's farm?

5. What did Douglass use to practice his writing?

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