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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Phillips watch being dragged off to be lynched, according to his narrative in the second Preface?
(a) Daniel O'Connell.
(b) William Lloyd Garrison.
(c) James McAlister.
(d) Frederick Douglass.

2. What does Phillips say he did while reading what Douglass had written?
(a) Laughed.
(b) Trembled.
(c) Shook.
(d) Cried.

3. Wendell Phillips was the son of a mayor of what city in Massachusetts?
(a) Plymouth.
(b) Springfield.
(c) Nantucket.
(d) Boston.

4. What later happened to the person whose offices and printing presses were destroyed?
(a) The person moved away.
(b) The person went to jail.
(c) The person was murdered.
(d) The person got help and rebuildt what was destroyed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the opening Preface written?

2. In what city in Massachusetts did Garrison hear the speech about slavery that is described in the Preface?

3. Garrison asks the reader for sympathy for whom in the Preface?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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