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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What body of water does Phillips say Douglass has seen the ships sailing on in the second Preface?
(a) The Boston Harbor.
(b) The Atlantic Ocean.
(c) The Chesapeake Bay.
(d) Cape Cod.

2. Approximately how many issues of his newspaper did William Lloyd Garrison publish?
(a) 1,800 issues.
(b) 15,000 issues.
(c) 100 issues.
(d) 500 issues.

3. When was Garrison's newspaper published?
(a) Before the Civil War.
(b) During the Civil War.
(c) After the Civil War.
(d) Before, during, and after the Civil War.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What did Wendell Phillips do for a living?

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

(see the answer key)

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