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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 Chesapeake Bay.
(b) The Boston Harbor.
(c) The Atlantic Ocean.
(d) Cape Cod.

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

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

4. How many years was Daniel O'Connell a slave in Africa?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 10.

5. For how many years did Garrison publish his newspaper?
(a) 10 years.
(b) 25 years.
(c) 15 years.
(d) 35 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the opening Preface written?

2. What does the author of the second Preface compare slaves to?

3. What type of writing is the second Preface?

4. Who helped Frederick Douglass with his writing of this narrative?

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

(see the answer key)

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