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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Second Preface.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Garrison builds up Douglass as an icon of what movement in the Preface?
(a) Religious.
(b) Fundamentalist.
(c) Democratic.
(d) Abolitionist.

2. When was the opening Preface written?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1849.
(c) 1845.
(d) 1865.

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

4. When did William Lloyd Garrison see the abolitionist speech described in the Preface?
(a) 1859.
(b) 1841.
(c) 1862.
(d) 1835.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the writer of the second Preface famous for?

2. What body of water does Phillips say Douglass has seen the ships sailing on in the second Preface?

3. To whom does the author compare Douglass in the second Preface?

4. What is the final line of Garrison's Preface (x)?

5. For how many years did Garrison publish his newspaper?

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