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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the female slave's name that Douglass describes being beaten by the supervisor in Chapter 1?
(a) Ann Jester.
(b) Arlene Henry.
(c) Aunt Hester.
(d) Jan Harris.

2. Who did Phillips watch being dragged off to be lynched, according to his narrative in the second Preface?
(a) James McAlister.
(b) Daniel O'Connell.
(c) William Lloyd Garrison.
(d) Frederick Douglass.

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

4. To whom does the author compare Douglass in the second Preface?
(a) Slave Masters.
(b) Preachers.
(c) Civil War Soldiers.
(d) The writers of the Constitution.

5. When was the second Preface written?
(a) 1894.
(b) 1818.
(c) 1835.
(d) 1845.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Douglass's first master have as a supervisor?

2. What happened when Phillips went to the police about issues related to slavery?

3. Garrison builds up Douglass as an icon of what movement in the Preface?

4. What is the "West Indies Experiment?"

5. Phillips compares the Mississippi Valley to a story in what publication?

(see the answer key)

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