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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Frederick Douglass say disgusts him in Chapter 1?
(a) Slaves being sold in cities.
(b) The murder of innocent people.
(c) Slaveholders forcing themselves on slave women, then having children with them.
(d) Slaves being removed from their families.

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

3. Where is the opening Preface said to be written?
(a) Boston.
(b) New York.
(c) St. Charles.
(d) Baltimore.

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

5. How does Garrison describe Douglass's nature in the Preface?
(a) Condescending.
(b) Humble.
(c) Disrespectful.
(d) Self-centered.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Phillips say he did while reading what Douglass had written?

2. Who gave the anti-slavery speech in Massachusetts that is described in the Preface?

3. What is the name of the newspaper Garrison published?

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

5. Who was Frederick Douglass's first master?

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