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

2. What best defines what "mulatto" means?
(a) A person who has one white parent and one blank parent.
(b) A person who is violent to slaves.
(c) A slave child.
(d) An adulterous relationship between a master and a slave.

3. When was the second Preface written?
(a) 1835.
(b) 1818.
(c) 1894.
(d) 1845.

4. What is the final line of Garrison's Preface (x)?
(a) "NO COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY! NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS!"
(b) "WE CAN FREE THE SLAVES NOW!"
(c) "FREE ALL THE SLAVES NOW!"
(d) "DEATH TO THE SLAVEHOLDERS!"

5. Who did Douglass's first master have as a supervisor?
(a) Mr. Garrison.
(b) Mr. Phillips.
(c) Mr. Grady.
(d) Mr. Plummer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old does Douglass write that he thinks he is in the first Chapter?

3. Who was Frederick Douglass's first master?

4. When was Garrison's newspaper published?

5. Which relatives' names does Douglass know?

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