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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened when Phillips went to the police about issues related to slavery?
(a) The police investigated .
(b) The police did nothing.
(c) The police put Phillips in jail.
(d) The police found the wrongdoers and punished them.

2. In what state was Frederick Douglass born?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) Maine.
(c) Michigan.
(d) Maryland.

3. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was Frederick Douglass's first master?

3. For how many years did Garrison publish his newspaper?

4. Whose offices and printing presses were destroyed in the narrative of the second Preface?

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

(see the answer key)

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