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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of writing is the second Preface?
(a) A poem.
(b) A letter.
(c) A short story.
(d) An essay.

2. What was Colonel Lloyd obsessed with, according to the narrative in Chapter 3?
(a) The care of his horses and carriage.
(b) His crops.
(c) The running of his farms.
(d) His hunting dogs.

3. What best defines what "mulatto" means?
(a) A person who is violent to slaves.
(b) A slave child.
(c) A person who has one white parent and one blank parent.
(d) An adulterous relationship between a master and a slave.

4. Phillips compares the Mississippi Valley to a story in what publication?
(a) A letter.
(b) The Bible.
(c) A newspaper.
(d) A journal.

5. In what state was Frederick Douglass born?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) Maryland.
(c) Michigan.
(d) Maine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Douglass' concerned about in Chapter 1?

2. Who did Phillips watch being dragged off to be lynched, according to his narrative in the second Preface?

3. How many slaves did Colonel Lloyd have in total?

4. What is Douglass's concern in Chapter 1 symbolic for?

5. What event did the author of the second Preface predict?

(see the answer key)

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