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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the Colonel put tar on the fence?
(a) To keep the animals away.
(b) To ruin the slaves' only clothes if they try to climb it.
(c) To identify any slave that attempted to steal.
(d) To know if the slaves tried to escape.

2. Approximately how many issues of his newspaper did William Lloyd Garrison publish?
(a) 15,000 issues.
(b) 1,800 issues.
(c) 100 issues.
(d) 500 issues.

3. What has stayed in Douglass's memory for the rest of his life, according to his narrative in Chapter 2?
(a) The emotional impact of the songs the slaves sing.
(b) The images of slaves being hung.
(c) The images of the slaves being beaten.
(d) The emotional impact of babies being taken from their mothers.

4. What does Douglass describe in detail in Chapter 2?
(a) His aunts and uncles.
(b) His first masters and the farms he lived on.
(c) His mother and her parents.
(d) His brother and sisters.

5. Who did Douglass's first master oversee?
(a) Most of the overseers.
(b) All of the overseers.
(c) Three of the overseers.
(d) Two of the overseers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author of the second Preface compare slaves to?

2. What is William Lloyd Garrison well-known for being?

3. In what state was Frederick Douglass born?

4. In what time period of his life does Douglass's detailed descriptions in Chapter 2 take place?

5. Phillips compares the Mississippi Valley to a story in what publication?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Great House Farm. Who owned it?

2. What information does Douglass relate about himself in the beginning of Chapter 1?

3. Why does Phillips say he does not want to know Douglass's name or place of birth in the second Preface?

4. What was Colonel Lloyd's garden like?

5. In the Preface, why does Mr. Garrison talk about a story that Daniel O'Connell has previously told?

6. What is the importance of the songs of the slaves in Chapter 2?

7. What was the West Indies Experiment?

8. What upsets Douglass about his mother's death?

9. How is Garrison's Preface different than other prefaces?

10. What does Douglass mention in particular about the slaves suffering in Chapter 2?

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