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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What rumor does Douglass relate about himself in Chapter 1?
(a) His father was a doctor.
(b) His father was a white man.
(c) His father was a lawyer.
(d) His father was a Civil War soldier.

2. How many years was Daniel O'Connell a slave in Africa?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 10.
(d) 2.

3. What is the writer of the second Preface famous for?
(a) Being a slave master.
(b) Being an anti-slavery orator.
(c) Being a slave trainer.
(d) Writing.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What type of writing is the second Preface?

3. According to Douglass, what did the slaves strive for at Lloyd's plantations?

4. In what city in Massachusetts did Garrison hear the speech about slavery that is described in the Preface?

5. Garrison refers to Douglas as a man with what, in his Preface (x)?

(see the answer key)

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