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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Douglass focus on describing in Chapter 3?

2. Where was the punishment of slaves and the food given out for Lloyd's slaves?

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

4. Which relatives' names does Douglass know?

5. How does Garrison describe Douglass's nature in the Preface?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the irony regarding the slaves wanting to work at the main farm?

2. Who was William Lloyd Garrison?

3. Why did Phillips risk his life to be a part of the anti-slavery movement?

4. What was the situation surrounding Demby's death?

5. Give two examples of slaves who were murdered that Douglass mentions in Chapter 4. Who killed them?

6. What is the importance of Douglass knowing the slave master's family's names?

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

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

9. Why does Garrison's Preface seem somewhat like a religious sermon?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the theme of hunger in Douglass's narrative. How is this theme developed though symbolism? How is it developed through action? What are Douglass's statements about hunger?

Essay Topic 2

How did slave masters go about the process of dominating slaves and maintaining that domination? What are examples specifically of how this process took place? What are the dangers of enslavement today, given our knowledge of slavery's history?

Essay Topic 3

Douglass discusses some of his family as well as his masters.What sorts of things did Douglass learn from observing both his family as well as his masters' over the years? Did each 'family' teach him different things, or do they have some of the same lessons? How were these family systems different?

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