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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What later happened to the person whose offices and printing presses were destroyed?
(a) The person moved away.
(b) The person was murdered.
(c) The person got help and rebuildt what was destroyed.
(d) The person went to jail.

3. While Douglass talks about slavery, what does he have flashbacks about in Chapter 1?
(a) His family.
(b) A friend who was a slave as a child.
(c) His first love.
(d) His first master.

4. What did Wendell Phillips do for a living?
(a) He was a publisher.
(b) He was a soldier.
(c) He was a writer.
(d) He was a lawyer.

5. Wendell Phillips was the son of a mayor of what city in Massachusetts?
(a) Springfield.
(b) Boston.
(c) Plymouth.
(d) Nantucket.

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately how many issues of his newspaper did William Lloyd Garrison publish?

2. When was the second Preface written?

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

4. What is Douglass's concern in Chapter 1 symbolic for?

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

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