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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why was Douglass shocked at seeing the female slave being beaten in Chapter 1?
(a) He lived at the far end of the farm and was sheltered from these occurrences.
(b) She was young and pregnant.
(c) He thought she was nice.
(d) He thought the supervisor was a good man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What body of water does Phillips say Douglass has seen the ships sailing on in the second Preface?

2. Wendell Phillips was the son of a mayor of what city in Massachusetts?

3. Who did Phillips watch being dragged off to be lynched, according to his narrative in the second Preface?

4. Garrison refers to Douglas as a man with what, in his Preface (x)?

5. What does Frederick Douglass say disgusts him in Chapter 1?

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