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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Approximately how many issues of his newspaper did William Lloyd Garrison publish?
(a) 500 issues.
(b) 15,000 issues.
(c) 100 issues.
(d) 1,800 issues.

2. What is the possible real reason that the female slave was beaten?
(a) She was disobedent.
(b) She is found with a male slave and her master was jealous.
(c) She stole some food.
(d) She ran away, but was later caught.

3. What is one of the contrasting effects of slavery that Douglass suffers, according to Garrison in the Preface (x)?
(a) "Loses his soul."
(b) "No formal education."
(c) "A life not worth living."
(d) "Trembling in fear for his safety."

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

5. When was Garrison's newspaper published?
(a) After the Civil War.
(b) Before the Civil War.
(c) During the Civil War.
(d) Before, during, and after the Civil War.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When was the opening Preface written?

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

5. What later happened to the person whose offices and printing presses were destroyed?

(see the answer key)

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