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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event did the author of the second Preface predict?
(a) The Civil War.
(b) The death of Douglass.
(c) His own death.
(d) The end of slavery the following year.

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

3. Whose offices and printing presses were destroyed in the narrative of the second Preface?
(a) A lawyer's.
(b) A pastor's.
(c) A teacher's.
(d) A doctor's.

4. In what city in Massachusetts did Garrison hear the speech about slavery that is described in the Preface?
(a) Plymouth.
(b) Springfield.
(c) Boston.
(d) Nantucket.

5. What is the final line of Garrison's Preface (x)?
(a) "WE CAN FREE THE SLAVES NOW!"
(b) "DEATH TO THE SLAVEHOLDERS!"
(c) "NO COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY! NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS!"
(d) "FREE ALL THE SLAVES NOW!"

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the "West Indies Experiment?"

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

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

4. What is one of the contrasting effects of slavery that Douglass suffers, according to Garrison in the Preface (x)?

5. Where is the opening Preface said to be written?

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