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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Garrison asks the reader for sympathy for whom in the Preface?
(a) Frederick Douglass.
(b) The down-trodden victims.
(c) Himself.
(d) The slaveholders.

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

3. Who helped Frederick Douglass with his writing of this narrative?
(a) William L. Garrison.
(b) Daniel O'Connell.
(c) No one.
(d) James McAlister.

4. What is William Lloyd Garrison well-known for being?
(a) A slave.
(b) A slave master.
(c) An abolitionist.
(d) A Civil War soldier.

5. When did William Lloyd Garrison see the abolitionist speech described in the Preface?
(a) 1862.
(b) 1859.
(c) 1841.
(d) 1835.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What event did the author of the second Preface predict?

3. Approximately how many issues of his newspaper did William Lloyd Garrison publish?

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

5. When was Garrison's newspaper published?

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