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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which relatives' names does Douglass know?
(a) His mother and her parents.
(b) His mother and his aunt.
(c) His father and his uncle.
(d) His father and his parents.

2. Who was Frederick Douglass's first master?
(a) James O'Conner.
(b) William Lloyd Garrison.
(c) William Davenport.
(d) Captain Anthony.

3. In what city in Massachusetts did Garrison hear the speech about slavery that is described in the Preface?
(a) Nantucket.
(b) Springfield.
(c) Plymouth.
(d) Boston.

4. Approximately how many issues of his newspaper did William Lloyd Garrison publish?
(a) 15,000 issues.
(b) 100 issues.
(c) 500 issues.
(d) 1,800 issues.

5. What is Douglass irritated with his mother for in Chapter 1?
(a) For coming to visit him, knowing she could get beaten for it.
(b) For dying.
(c) For leaving him even though he knows she could not help it.
(d) Not telling him who his father is.

Short Answer Questions

1. Garrison builds up Douglass as an icon of what movement in the Preface?

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

3. What type of writing is the second Preface?

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

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

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