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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what age was Douglass when his mother died?
(a) 6.
(b) 7.
(c) 10.
(d) 17.

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

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

4. Whose offices and printing presses were destroyed in the narrative of the second Preface?
(a) A doctor's.
(b) A teacher's.
(c) A lawyer's.
(d) A pastor's.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was Garrison's newspaper published?

3. What is the writer of the second Preface famous for?

4. What did Wendell Phillips do for a living?

5. What were the ships Phillips describes in the second Preface carrying?

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