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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 did nothing.
(b) The police found the wrongdoers and punished them.
(c) The police put Phillips in jail.
(d) The police investigated .

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

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

4. What is the writer of the second Preface famous for?
(a) Being a slave master.
(b) Being an anti-slavery orator.
(c) Writing.
(d) Being a slave trainer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Douglass irritated with his mother for in Chapter 1?

2. How does Garrison describe Douglass's nature in the Preface?

3. What is the female slave's name that Douglass describes being beaten by the supervisor in Chapter 1?

4. Phillips compares the Mississippi Valley to a story in what publication?

5. What is the possible real reason that the female slave was beaten?

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