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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who helped Frederick Douglass with his writing of this narrative?
(a) No one.
(b) Daniel O'Connell.
(c) James McAlister.
(d) William L. Garrison.

2. Phillips compares the Mississippi Valley to a story in what publication?
(a) The Bible.
(b) A letter.
(c) A newspaper.
(d) A journal.

3. Where is the opening Preface said to be written?
(a) Boston.
(b) Baltimore.
(c) New York.
(d) St. Charles.

4. What does Frederick Douglass say disgusts him in Chapter 1?
(a) Slaves being sold in cities.
(b) Slaveholders forcing themselves on slave women, then having children with them.
(c) Slaves being removed from their families.
(d) The murder of innocent people.

5. At what age was Frederick Douglass when he was taken from his mother's care?
(a) Before turning three.
(b) At two years of age.
(c) Before turning five.
(d) Before turning one.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who did Douglass's first master have as a supervisor?

4. Garrison asks the reader for sympathy for whom in the Preface?

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

(see the answer key)

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