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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. How old is Brent's grandmother?
(a) 50.
(b) 75.
(c) 84.
(d) 68.

2. What is the name of Douglass' aunt who is badly beaten when he is a child?
(a) Harriet.
(b) Mary.
(c) Hester.
(d) Hetty.

3. As a child, Brent watches a mother lose how many of her children at a slave auction?
(a) 5.
(b) 9.
(c) 7.
(d) 3.

4. Though he does not know for sure how old he is as his story begins, Douglass estimates that he is roughly how old?
(a) 22.
(b) 35.
(c) 19.
(d) 28.

5. For what sum does Mrs. Bruce purchase Brent's freedom at the end of the narrative?
(a) $300.
(b) $600.
(c) $400.
(d) $200.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Garrison's Preface, he says that he sought the aid of the General Agent of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. What is the name of this man?

2. In what year does Douglass say he went to St. Michael's?

3. Brent learns that prior to William running away, Mr. Sands had intended to free him in how many years?

4. How old is Benny, Brent's son, in Chapter 15?

5. In his discussion of the Auld household, Douglass says that Mrs. Auld practices which trade?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the ploy by which Brent is able to convince Dr. Flint that she has indeed run away to New York while she is really hiding in her grandmother's attic.

2. What is the result when Brent falls in love with a free black man?

3. When discussing his childhood, why does Douglass say life is generally harder for slaves with white fathers than for other slaves with two black parents?

4. As Brent prepares to escape, she is able to spend a little time with her son. What is she surprised to learn upon reuniting with Benny?

5. Why, according to Douglass' recollection of his childhood, are infants separated from their mothers at such a young age in Maryland?

6. What fright does Brent face in Chapters 35 and 36?

7. As Brent's narrative begins, when and how does Brent find out that she is a slave?

8. According to Chapter 11, what is Douglass' opinion of the Underground Railroad?

9. Why does Brent start to fear her master when she is 15 years old?

10. What bit of good news does Brent receive in Chapter 40, and what bad news overshadows it?

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